# Finish this sentence please

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 18, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843 "2025-12-18T23:12:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-this-sentence-please/1025843/41 "2025-12-20T19:08:37Z")

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Thanks! 😀 Yes, the ancient Indians were unusual in their interest in very large integers, even in distant antiquity (check out [the Yajurveda hymn to the powers of ten up to a trillion or so](https://vedah.com/blogs/shukla-yajur-veda/arithmetic-and-numbers?srsltid=AfmBOortZ4-olJoJ12D8iVL52gr7_xPiVwJ3LxNafrADfCQXmV90bh8K), which is definitely not younger than early first millennium BCE at the latest, and which AFAIK is the most quantitatively extensive system of number words in any contemporary culture).

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