The traditional, ancient Indian numbering system, used today in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,Nepal and Myanmar (Burma), is based on a unique grouping of 2 decimal places, rather than the 3 decimal places commonplace in the West (China, Korea, and Japan, for instance, use 4). The terms crore and lakh are in widespread use today in Indian English. The decimal (base ten or occasionally denary) numeral system has ten as its base. ... A crore is a unit in the Indian numbering system, still widely used in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. ... A lakh (Hindi: लाख, Urdu: Ù„Ú©Ú¾, Bengali: , Tamil : இலட்சம்) is a unit in the Indian numbering system, widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. ... It has been suggested that Regional differences and dialects in Indian English be merged into this article or section. ...

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 crore) would be written as 3,00,00,000, with commas at the thousand, lakh, and crore levels, instead of 30,000,000. Look up one thousand in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A lakh (Hindi: लाख, Urdu: Ù„Ú©Ú¾, Bengali: , Tamil : இலட்சம்) is a unit in the Indian numbering system, widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. ...

The table below follows the short scale usage of billion being a thousand million. In India, following British usage, the long scale was used, with one billion equivalent to a million million. Long scale is the English translation of the French term échelle longue, which designates a system of numeric names in which the word billion means a million millions. ... Long scale is the English translation of the French term échelle longue, which designates a system of numeric names in which the word billion means a million millions. ...

The higher numbers listed above arawb are not commonly used, though padma and kharawb are sometimes used in Hindi. Neel, Padma, Shankh are more commonly found in old sections of Indian Mathematics. The long and short scales are two different numerical systems used throughout the world: Short scale is the English translation of the French term échelle courte. ... Look up million in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... One thousand million (1,000,000,000) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. ... This list compares various sizes of positive numbers, including counts of things, dimensionless numbers and probabilities. ... The quadrillion is a large number which has one of two values depending on how or where it is being used. ... The quadrillion is a large number which has one of two values depending on how or where it is being used. ... Main article: Names of large numbers A quintillion is a number written as either: a 1 followed by 18 zeros (10 to the 18th power, as used in the short scale system of numeration. ... Hindi (Devanagari: or , IAST: , IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is one of the official languages of the Union government of India. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Instead of saying the higher numbers, it is more common to use lakh and crore repeatedly or in combination, saying 1 lakh crore for 10¹² or one trillion.

In Mumbai (Bombay), khokha is underworld slang for a crore and peti is slang for a lakh. “Bombay” redirects here. ... Organized crime or criminal organizations are groups or operations run by criminals, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit. ... Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ...

The term crore (کرور (Korur) in Persian) was also used in Iran until recent decades, but with the meaning of 500,000. Persian (Local names: فارسی Fârsi or پارسی Pârsi)* is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ...

Lakh has entered the Swahili language as "laki" and is in common use. Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see Kiswahili for a discussion of the nomenclature) is an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. ...

See also

• Traditional number system