When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

    The Indian numbering system is used in the Indian subcontinent (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) to express large numbers.The terms lakh or 1,00,000 (one hundred thousand, written as 100,000 in Pakistan, and outside the Indian subcontinent) and crore or 1,00,00,000 [1] (ten million, written as 10,000,000 outside the subcontinent) are the most commonly used terms ...

  3. List of national highways in India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Highways...

    Schematic map of National Highways in India. On 28 April 2010, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways officially published a new numbering system for the National Highway network in the Gazette of the Government of India. [1] [2] It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientation and the geographic location of the highway. This ...

  4. National highways of India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_highways_of_India

    The national highways in India are a network of limited access roads owned by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. National highways have flyover access or some controlled-access, where entrance and exit is through the side of the flyover. At each highway intersection, flyovers are provided to bypass the traffic on the city, town, or ...

  5. 2010 renumbering of national highways in India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_renumbering_of...

    On 28 April 2010, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways officially notified the rationalized number system of the national highway network in the Gazette of the Government of India. [ 1][ 2] It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientation and the geographic location of the highway. This was adopted to ensure more flexibility ...

  6. History of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu...

    The Hindu–Arabic numeral system is a decimal place-value numeral system that uses a zero glyph as in "205". [1]Its glyphs are descended from the Indian Brahmi numerals.The full system emerged by the 8th to 9th centuries, and is first described outside India in Al-Khwarizmi's On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals (ca. 825), and second Al-Kindi's four-volume work On the Use of the Indian ...

  7. National Highway 2 (India, old numbering) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Highway_2_(India...

    A view of Delhi Faridabad Skyway, Delhi NCR. Old National Highway 2 or Old NH 2, (currently National Highway 19) was a major National Highway in India, that connected the states of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. It constitutes a major portion of the historical Grand Trunk Road along with old NH 91 and old NH 1 ...

  8. Indian mathematics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics

    Indian mathematics emerged in the Indian subcontinent [1] from 1200 BCE [2] until the end of the 18th century. In the classical period of Indian mathematics (400 CE to 1200 CE), important contributions were made by scholars like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara II, Varāhamihira, and Madhava. The decimal number system in use today [3] was first ...

  9. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

    The long and short scales are two of several naming systems for integer powers of ten which use some of the same terms for different magnitudes. [1] [2]Some languages, particularly in East Asia and South Asia, have large number naming systems that are different from both the long and short scales, such as the Indian numbering system and the Chinese, Japanese, or Korean numerals.