[oblio]

> The words for the orders of magnitude don't group by thousand like in English

It's not only in English, as far as I know it's almost everywhere else, the entire Western world plus its former colonies and I think even places like China.

The Indian subcontinent is the exception.

[taejo]

Chinese uses powers of ten thousand, I believe, but I don't know if that's reflected in the way numerals are written.