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  2. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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    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 written as "3,00,00,000 rupees". There are names for numbers larger than crore, but they are less commonly used. These include arab (100 crore, 1 billion), kharab ...

  3. 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 ]

  4. Indian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    40 sers = 1 maund (= 34 kg 8 hg 3 dag 5g 9 dg 2.6 cg /34.835926 kilograms) 1 rattī = 1.75 grains (= 0.11339825 gram/113 milligrams 398 1/4 micrograms 4 attograms ) (1 grain = 0.064799 gram) From 1833 the rupee and tolā weight was fixed at 180 grains, i.e. 11.66382 grams. Hence the weight of 1 maund increased to 37.324224 kilogram. [3]

  5. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu–Arabic system is designed for positional notation in a decimal system. In a more developed form, positional notation also uses a decimal marker (at first a mark over the ones digit but now more commonly a decimal point or a decimal comma which separates the ones place from the tenths place), and also a symbol for "these digits recur ad infinitum".

  6. 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.

  7. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  8. Indian anna - Wikipedia

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    An anna (or ānna) was a currency unit formerly used in British India, equal to 1 ⁄ 16 of a rupee. [1] It was subdivided into four pices or twelve pies (thus there were 192 pies in a rupee). When the rupee was decimalised and subdivided into 100 (new) paise , one anna was therefore equivalent to 6.25 paise .

  9. History of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Panchavimsha Brahmana lists 10 9 as nikharva, 10 10 vâdava, 10 11 akṣiti, while Śâṅkhyâyana Śrauta Sûtra has 10 9 nikharva, 10 10 samudra, 10 11 salila, 10 12 antya, 10 13 ananta. Such lists of names for powers of ten are called daśaguṇottarra saṁjñâ. There area also analogous lists of Sanskrit names for ...