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Never seen this before, or at least never consciously seen this, but this article uses the word 'crore' to denote 10M. So instead of saying 28% of 115 million a
by tinco 10y ago
Never seen this before, or at least never consciously seen this, but this article uses the word 'crore' to denote 10M. So instead of saying 28% of 115 million accounts that were opened, they say 28% of 11.5 crore accounts. Such a great thing that there's all these different regions of the world that use English almost unchanged, yet with these small cultural differences.
- pksadiq 10y agoWe don't usually use million or billion. We use lakh (100 thousand) and crore (10 million). This is very common. Most news papers don't ever use the terms million or billion. Many Indians find it hard to understand what million and billion stands for.
- brianwawok 10y agoSo words for 5 zeros and 7 zeros. Nothing for 6 zeros? I guess you would just call it 20 lakh for 2 million?
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- pksadiq 10y ago> I guess you would just call it 20 lakh for 2 million? Yeah.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoIt also mentions “lakh” for the amount of compensation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system