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So too are the thousands, with the number of thousands followed by the word "thousand". The number one thousand may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000; larger numbers are written for example 10 000 or 10,000 for ease of reading.
When a number such as 10 45 needs to be referred to in words, it is simply read out as "ten to the forty-fifth" or "ten to the forty-five". This is easier to say and less ambiguous than "quattuordecillion", which means something different in the long scale and the short scale.
Capital One recommends using the format “One thousand, five hundred and 00/100” for writing out $1,500. That would make $1,200 look like “One thousand, two hundred and 00/100.”
One hundred thousand: lakh: 500 000: Five hundred thousand: crore (Iranian) 1 000 000: One million: Mega, meg, mil, (often shortened to M) 1 048 576: One million forty-eight thousand five hundred [and] seventy-six: Mibi or Mega in computing, see binary prefix (Mega is shortened to M, Mibi to Mi) 10 000 000: Ten million: crore (Indian)(Pakistan ...
(Nor: Nineteen forty-five and 1950 had no elections — comparable numbers near one another should all be written in words or all in figures.) In tables and infoboxes, quantities are expressed in figures (Years in office: 5); but numbers within a table's explanatory text and comments follow the general rule.
The modern word million derives from an Italian augmentative of the Latin word for thousand, mille. [31] In Polish, tysiąc pięćset sto dziewięćset ("one thousand five hundred one hundred nine hundred") is used, to refer to an indefinitely large number. [32]
The Indian system is decimal (base-10), same as in the West, and the first five orders of magnitude are named in a similar way: one (10 0), ten (10 1), one hundred (10 2), one thousand (10 3), and ten thousand (10 4). For higher powers of ten, naming diverges.
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