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Encyclopedia > Crores

A crore is a unit in a traditional number system, still widely used in India.


1 crore is equal to 10 million.


This system of measurement also introduces separators into numbers in a different place than what is common outside India. For example, 30 million (3 crore) would be written as 3,00,00,000. The Mumbai underworld slang for a crore is a khokha.


See Also

  • CRORE at LoveToKnow. (http://44.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CR/CRORE.htm)

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Crore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (153 words)
An Indian crore is equal to 100 lakhs or 10 million (10
An Iranian crore (کرور (Korur) in Persian) is half a million (500,000).
The Mumbai underworld slang for a crore is a khokha.
Indian numbering system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (234 words)
The terms crore and lakh are in widespread use today in Indian English.
Only arab, crore and lakh are commonly used; the higher numbers listed above are relatively unheard of, though padma and kharab are sometimes used in Hindi.
In Mumbai (Bombay), khokha is underworld slang for a crore and "peti" is slang for a lakh.
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