Editing Numeral (linguistics) (section)

==Larger numerals==
English has derived numerals for multiples of its base (''fifty, sixty,'' etc.), and some languages have simplex numerals for these, or even for numbers between the multiples of its base. [[Balinese language|Balinese]], for example, currently has a decimal system, with words for 10, 100, and 1000, but has additional simplex numerals for 25 (with a second word for 25 only found in a compound for 75), 35, 45, 50, 150, 175, 200 (with a second found in a compound for 1200), 400, 900, and 1600. In [[Hindustani numerals|Hindustani]], the numerals between 10 and 100 have developed to the extent that they need to be learned independently.

In many languages, numerals up to the base are a distinct [[part of speech]], while the words for powers of the base belong to one of the other word classes. In English, these higher words are [[hundred]] 10<sup>2</sup>, [[thousand]] 10<sup>3</sup>, [[million]] 10<sup>6</sup>, and higher powers of a thousand ([[short scale]]) or of a million ([[long scale]]—see [[names of large numbers]]). These words cannot modify a noun without being preceded by an article or numeral (*''hundred dogs played in the park''), and so are nouns.

In East Asia, the higher units are hundred, thousand, [[myriad]] 10<sup>4</sup>, and [[Chinese numerals#Large numbers|powers of myriad]]. In the [[Indian subcontinent]], they are hundred, thousand, [[lakh]] 10<sup>5</sup>, [[crore]] 10<sup>7</sup>, and [[Indian numbering system|so on]]. The [[Maya numerals|Mesoamerican system]], still used to some extent in [[Mayan languages]], was based on powers of 20: ''bak’'' 400 (20<sup>2</sup>), ''pik'' 8000 (20<sup>3</sup>), ''kalab'' 160,000 (20<sup>4</sup>), etc.