As others have said: anjanb probably meant 1 lakh (100,000) [1] and 2 lakh (200,000). His second number was likely a typo. [1] Not sure why the asymmetry betwe

As others have said: anjanb probably meant 1 lakh (100,000) [1] and 2 lakh (200,000). His second number was likely a typo. [1] Not sure why the asymmetry between thousand and lakh (when these units were created), though (10^3 vs an additional 10^2). Another difference: Billion in India used to mean 1 million million (like the British), rather than the American meaning of 1 thousand million. Linking to this post (mine), since it is somewhat apropos :-) http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2010/06/bhaskaracharya-and-man-who-found-zero.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2010/06/bhaskaracharya-and-man-who...