Hatchhyaku = infinite?

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Hatchhyaku = infinite?

Post by Terra-jin » Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:16 pm

I just thought of something. "Hachi" means eight and "hyaku" means 100, right? This would mean that Hatchhyaku (is that the right spelling?) sounds like the Japanese equivalent to 800 (expect that "hachi-hyaku" is abbreviated to "hap-pyaku").
If you add "man" (10,000), you'd have 8,000,000 which in Japan is seen as an infinite number. Could this be the pun for Hatchhyaku, meaning something along the lines of infinite power?
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Post by Ash » Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:38 pm

I think it was in mentioned in an oooooooold thread on this forum that it is a reversal of hyakuhachi/108, that being a reference to the 108 bandits of Ryozanpaku.
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Post by Alucard » Sat Nov 17, 2007 7:16 pm

Ash wrote:I think it was in mentioned in an oooooooold thread on this forum that it is a reversal of hyakuhachi/108, that being a reference to the 108 bandits of Ryozanpaku.
http://db.schuby.org/daizex/viewtopic.php?t=2621
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Post by Olivier Hague » Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:57 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108_%28num ... d_the_arts
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