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Because the system is based on counting in blocks of ten.

A medium large number is represented as a number of thousands (10*10*10)

plus a number of hundreds (10*10)

plus a number of tens (10)

plus some units.

Numbers that are larger still would involve ten thousands (10*10*10*10 or 104), or hundred thousands (105), millions (106), etc.

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