A crore is a unit in the Indian numbering system, still widely used in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. It was also used in Iran for many centuries until some decades ago. The traditional Indian numbering system, used today in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Burma), is based on a unique grouping of 2 decimal places, rather than the commonplace 3 decimal places. ...

An Indian crore is equal to 100 lakhs or 10 million (10⁷). An Iranian crore (کرور (Korur) in Persian) is half a million (500,000). A lakh (also spelled lac or laksha) is a unit in a traditional number system, still widely used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, equal to a hundred thousand. ... One million (1000000), one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999999 and preceding 1000001. ... Persian is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ...

This system of measurement also introduces separators into numbers in a different place than that which is common outside India. For example, 30 million (3 crores) would be written as 3,00,00,000, with commas at the thousand, lakh, and crore levels, instead of 30,000,000. For the techno single by Moby, see Thousand (single). ... A lakh (also spelled lac or laksha) is a unit in a traditional number system, still widely used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, equal to a hundred thousand. ...

The Mumbai underworld slang for a crore is a khokha. This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Slang is the non-standard or non-dialectal use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ...

See also

• Lakh (= 0.01 crore)
• Indian numbering system
• Names of numbers in English
• Names of large numbers

In the same way, Mumbai underworld Slang for Lakh is Peti A lakh (also spelled lac or laksha) is a unit in a traditional number system, still widely used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, equal to a hundred thousand. ... The traditional Indian numbering system, used today in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Burma), is based on a unique grouping of 2 decimal places, rather than the commonplace 3 decimal places. ... Here are examples of how to name numbers in English. ... // The standard dictionary numbers Throughout this article, exponential or scientific notation is used. ...

External links

• Crore at LoveToKnow.