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Indian numbering system

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The Indian numbering system, used today in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar (Burma), is based on grouping by
two decimal 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, and crore levels, instead of Rs.30,000,000.

The terms crore and lakh are in widespread use today in Indian English.

The table below follows the short scale usage of billion being a thousand million. In India, following British usage, the long scale was
used, with one billion equivalent to a million million.

Power
Term (Hindi transliteration) Figure World system (short scale)
notation
एक (Ek) 1 100 1 (One)

दस (Das) 10 10 1 10 (Ten)

सौ (Sau) 100 102 100 (Hundred)

सह' (Sahastr) / हजार (Hazaar) 1,000 103 1,000 (One thousand)

लाख (Lakh) 1,00,000 10 5 100,000 (One hundred thousand)

करोड़ (Crore) 1,00,00,000 107 10,000,000 (Ten million)

अरब (Arawb) 1,00,00,00,000 109 1,000,000,000 (One billion)

खरब (Kharawb) 1,00,00,00,00,000 10 11 100,000,000,000 (One hundred billion)

नील (Neel) 1,00,00,00,00,00,000 1013 10,000,000,000,000 (Ten trillion)

प4 (Padma) 1,00,00,00,00,00,00,000 1015 1,000,000,000,000,000 (One quadrillion)

श6ख (Shankh) 1,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,000 10 17 100,000,000,000,000,000 (One hundred quadrillion) www.lumosity.com

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महाश6ख (Mahashankh) 1,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,000 1019 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 (Ten quintillion)

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 of Indian 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
12
10 or one trillion.

In Mumbai (Bombay), khokha is underworld slang for a crore and peti is slang for a lakh.

The term crore (‫ور‬#$ (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: को8ट / Koti), and a lakh is called lakshaya (Sanskrit: ल: / Laksha) .

Lakh has entered the Swahili language as "laki" and is in common use.

See also

Traditional number system

Indian numerals

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