10

This article is about the number. For the years, see 10 BC and AD 10. For other uses, see Ten (disambiguation).

"10th" redirects here. For other uses, see Tenth (disambiguation).

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Cardinal	ten
Ordinal	10th (tenth)
Numeral system	decimal
Factorization	2 × 5
Divisors	1, 2, 5, 10
Greek numeral	Ι´
Roman numeral	X, x
Roman numeral (unicode)	X, x
Greek prefix	deca-/deka-
Latin prefix	deci-
Binary	10102
Ternary	1013
Senary	146
Octal	128
Duodecimal	A12
Hexadecimal	A16
Chinese numeral	十，拾
Hebrew	י (Yod)
Khmer	១០
Armenian	Ժ
Tamil	௰
Thai	๑๐
Devanāgarī	१०
Bengali	১০
Arabic & Kurdish & Iranian	١٠
Malayalam	൰
Egyptian hieroglyph	𓎆
Babylonian numeral	𒌋

10 (ten) is the even natural number following 9 and preceding 11. Ten is the base of the decimal numeral system, the most common system of denoting numbers in both spoken and written language.

Linguistics

• A collection of ten items (most often ten years) is called a decade.
• The ordinal adjective is decimal; the distributive adjective is denary.
• Increasing a quantity by one order of magnitude is most widely understood to mean multiplying the quantity by ten.
• To reduce something by one tenth is to decimate . (In ancient Rome, the killing of one in ten soldiers in a cohort was the punishment for cowardice or mutiny; or, one-tenth of the able-bodied men in a village as a form of retribution, thus causing a labor shortage and threat of starvation in agrarian societies.)

Mathematics

Ten is the smallest noncototient number. ^[1] There are exactly 10 small Pisot numbers that do not exceed the golden ratio. ^[2]

Decagon

Main article: Decagon

A ten sided polygon is called a decagon .

List of basic calculations

Multiplication	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	20	25	50	100	1000
10 × x	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	110	120	130	140	150	160	200	250	500	1000	10000

Division	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
10 ÷ x	10	5	3.3	2.5	2	1.6	1.428571	1.25	1.1	1	0.90	0.83	0.769230	0.714285	0.6
x ÷ 10	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.9	1	1.1	1.2	1.3	1.4	1.5

Exponentiation	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
10x	10	100	1000	10000	100000	1000000	10000000	100000000	1000000000	10000000000
x10	1	1024	59049	1048576	9765625	60466176	282475249	1073741824	3486784401	10000000000

Science

The metric system is based on the number 10, so converting units is done by adding or removing zeros (e.g. 1 centimetre = 10 millimetres, 1 decimetre = 10 centimetres, 1 meter = 100 centimetres, 1 dekametre = 10 meters, 1 kilometre = 1,000 meters).

Mysticism

The tetractys

• In Pythagoreanism, the number 10 played an important role and was symbolized by the tetractys.

See also

• Mathematicsportal
• List of highways numbered 10

References

1. "Sloane's A005278 : Noncototients". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
2. M.J. Bertin; A. Decomps-Guilloux; M. Grandet-Hugot; M. Pathiaux-Delefosse; J.P. Schreiber (1992). Pisot and Salem Numbers. Birkhäuser. ISBN   3-7643-2648-4.