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Considering Baidu's scale, it would be tens of thousands.

There are several other discrepancies in the doc between the Chinese version and the English one. Some technical proofreading is needed.

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In this case, I think it's fine. Chinese has a named number for 10000 (wàn/万), so they used that. Since English doesn't, they used 'thousands'. In either case, the idea is that the code would run on a large number of servers.

For instance, Hindi has special names for 100000 (lakh), 10M (crore/karod) etc. so a similar translation to Hindi would use those even if it meant introducing a factor of 10 in the literal interpretation.

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