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For higher powers of ten, naming diverges. The Indian system uses names for every second power of ten: lakh (10 5), crore (10 7), arab (10 9), kharab (10 11), etc. In the two Western systems, long and short scales, there are names for every third power of ten. The short scale uses million (10 6), billion (10 9), trillion (10 12), etc.
Different cultures used different traditional numeral systems for naming large numbers.The extent of large numbers used varied in each culture. Two interesting points in using large numbers are the confusion on the term billion and milliard in many countries, and the use of zillion to denote a very large number where precision is not required.
10 6: Million Million Million M Mega-2 1 10 9: Billion Thousand million Milliard G Giga-3 2 10 12: Trillion Billion Billion T Tera-4 2 10 15: Quadrillion Thousand billion Billiard P Peta-5 3 10 18: Quintillion Trillion Trillion E Exa-6 3 10 21: Sextillion Thousand trillion Trilliard Z Zetta-7 4 10 24: Septillion Quadrillion Quadrillion Y Yotta ...
10 6, one million; 10 9, one milliard or one billion; 10 12, one trillion; etc. Other countries also use a word similar to trillion to mean 10 12 , etc. Whilst a few of these countries like English use a word similar to billion to mean 10 9 , most like Arabic have kept a traditionally long scale word similar to milliard for 10 9 .
For example 150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million) rupees is written as "fifteen crore rupees", "₹ 15 crore". [1] In the abbreviated form, usage such as "₹ 15 cr" is common. [3] Trillions (in the short scale) of money are often written or spoken of in terms of lakh crore. For example, one trillion rupees is equivalent to: ₹ 1 lakh ...
For example, 10 million (1 crore) would be written as 1,00,00,000. In Pakistan, there is a greater tendency to use the standard western system, while using the Indian numbering system when conducting business in Urdu. In Sweden, the currency sometimes used the colon as decimal separator (1 234 567:89).
Other numbers are given in numerals (3.75, 544) or in forms such as 21 million (or billion, trillion, etc. – but rarely thousand or hundred). Markup: 21{{nbsp}}million. Billion and trillion are understood to represent their short-scale values of 10 9 (1,000,000,000) and 10 12 (1,000,000,000,000), respectively. Keep this in mind when ...
At least one editor was confused by "₹ 10 billion (US$120 million)" as he or she did not recognize the ₹ symbol. If INR linked the result would be "₹ 10 billion (US$223 million)" which looks the same but the ₹ is linked. --Marc Kupper|talk 23:52, 6 July 2011 (UTC) I have added the rupee link.