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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh is an Indian unit. They write five lakh where I'd write half a million.
by erik_seaberg 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh is an Indian unit. They write five lakh where I'd write half a million.
- captn3m0 6y agoYup, the number in my head was 5 lakh and it doesn't occur to me to write it as 0.5M. I've been forcing myself to remember lakh=1e5,crore=1e7,million=1e6 while doing calculations these days, so just happened to write it that way.