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numbers

These examples occur at the ceqli wiki:

han du gaw - 129
xey sto - 600
du sto xey - 2007
pal sen - 8000
cil sen sen - 7,000,000

1) Is there any way to indicate the magnitude of a number?  
2) It seems very counterintuitive to say, e.g.,  han sto (100), han zil han (101), han zil du (102), etc, replacing "sto" with "zil han".  The Chinese read years as digits (with 2000 as "er ling ling ling").  Ceqli could do the same.  
3) How are really big numbers read?  E.g., 100000003000001?  Using "sen" and "sto" means you have to know how many zeroes are there, whereas using words to indicate magnitude (thousand, million, et al.) lets you use numbers without actually knowing how many zeroes are in them.

I may have brought this up here before, but if an indicator of magnitude were prefixed to the method above, the whole would work fine (although the latter part of point 3 would still apply).

stevo