10,000

Thanks to all worldwide readers of my Blog 'Cabine du Jardin Deux'.  The Cabine has today passed the 10,000 page views milestone. 

This got me thinking about the number 'ten thousand'.

Apparently, each neuron in the brain has connections to 10,000 others. The latest research, which involved making brain soup and counting the number of nuclei belonging to neurons, gives the average number of neurons in a human brain as eighty six billion.  Therefore the human brain has something like 860,000 billion connections.  It makes you think, doesn't it? 

There are said to be 10,000 species of birds.

The speed of a fast neutron is 10,000 Km/sec.

A 'myriagon' is a polygon with 10,000 sides.

Human Gene ID 10000:  AKT3 v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog 3 (protein kinase B, gamma) [ Homo sapiens ]

Ten thousand steps for the average fit male is approximately five miles.

The ten thousandth prime number is 104,729.  For more information on the first 10,000 prime numbers see:      http://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/10000.txt

In the USA, every day between 2011 and 2030, 10,000 baby boomers will reach the age of 65 years. Twenty-six percent of the US population are baby boomers.

There are fourteen physicians for every ten thousand members of the world population.