- Indian numbering system
The Indian numbering system, used today in
India ,Pakistan ,Bangladesh ,Nepal andMyanmar (Burma), is based on grouping by twodecimal places, rather than the three decimal places commonplace in most parts of the world. This system of measurement introduces separators into numbers in places appropriate to the two-digit grouping. For example, 30 million (3 crore) rupees would be written as Rs.3,00,00,000, with commas at the thousand,lakh , andcrore levels, instead of Rs.30,000,000.The terms "
crore " and "lakh " are in widespread use today inIndian English .The table below follows the
short scale usage of billion being a thousand million. InIndia , following British usage, thelong scale was used, with one billion equivalent to a million million.The higher numbers listed above "arawb" are not commonly used, though "padma" and "kharawb" are sometimes used in
Hindi . "Neel", "Padma", "Shankh" are more commonly found in old sections ofIndian Mathematics .Instead of saying the higher numbers, it is more common to use "lakh" and "crore" repeatedly or in combination, saying "1 lakh crore" for 1012 or one trillion.
In
Mumbai (Bombay), "khokha" is underworldslang for a crore and "peti" is slang for a lakh.Fact|date=August 2008The term "crore" (کرور [Korur] in Persian) was also used in
Iran until recent decades, but with the meaning of 500,000.In Sinhalese, a crore is called "kōţiya" (Sanskrit: कोटि / Koti), and a lakh is called "lakshaya" (Sanskrit: लक्ष / Laksha) .
Lakh has entered the
Swahili language as "laki" and is in common use.ee also
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Traditional number system
*Indian numerals
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