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  2. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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    Commonly used quantities include lakh (one hundred thousand) and crore (ten million) – written as 1,00,000 and 1,00,00,000 respectively in some locales. [1] For example: 150,000 rupees is "1.5 lakh rupees" which can be written as "1,50,000 rupees", and 30,000,000 (thirty million) rupees is referred to as "3 crore rupees" which is can be ...

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The Indian numbering system uses the named numbers common between the long and short scales up to ten thousand. For larger values, it includes named numbers at each multiple of 100; including lakh (10 5 ) and crore (10 7 ).

  4. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    Combinations of the unambiguous words such as ten, hundred, thousand and million. For example: one thousand million and one million million. [5] Scientific notation (for example 1 × 10 10), or its engineering notation variant (for example 10 × 10 9), or the computing variant E notation (for example 1e10). This is the most common practice ...

  5. Lakh - Wikipedia

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    A lakh (/ l æ k, l ɑː k /; abbreviated L; sometimes written lac [1]) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation: 10 5). [1] [2] In the Indian 2, 2, 3 convention of digit grouping, it is written as 1,00,000. [3]

  6. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    It is useful because the number can be copied and pasted into calculators ... Thousand 1,000 Thousand Lakh 1,00,000 One hundred thousand Crore 1,00,00,000 Ten million

  7. Metrication in India - Wikipedia

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    The Indian numbering system of crores and lakhs is used. Tyre rim diameters are still measured in inches, as used worldwide. Body temperature is still sometimes measured in degrees Fahrenheit. Industries like the construction and property still use metric and imperial, though it is more common for area to be advertised in square feet and acres.

  8. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    (100 000; one hundred thousand or a lakh). Demography: The population of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was 100,982 in 2009. Biology – Strands of hair on a head: The average human head has about 100,000–150,000 strands of hair. Literature: approximately 100,000 verses in the Mahabharata.

  9. Crore - Wikipedia

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    Crore (/ k r ɔːr /; abbreviated cr) denotes the quantity ten million (10 7) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system.In many international contexts, the decimal quantity is formatted as 10,000,000, but when used in the context of the Indian numbering system, the quantity is usually formatted 1,00,00,000.