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|And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
 
|And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
 
|The number of the cavalrymen were two hundred million; I heard that number.
 
|The number of the cavalrymen were two hundred million; I heard that number.
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|The Greek number is given as '''δισμυριαδες μυριαδων''', literally "two myriads of myriads." This is exactly how a Greek would say a number equivalent to two hundred million.
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|The Greek number is given as '''δισμυριαδες μυριαδων''', literally "two myriads of myriads." This is exactly how a Greek would say a number equivalent to two hundred million. It could also stand for "twenty thousand divisions" or "two divisions of divisions." Ancient armies often named their military units after the nearest round (and imprecise) number, e.g. "hundred" for "company", "thousand" for "cohort" or "regiment", and "myriad" for "division."
 
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