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I really hope en-IN moves to American spellings and gets rid of the lakh/crore numbers and use million/billion instead (more scientific). Then it basically beco

I really hope en-IN moves to American spellings and gets rid of the lakh/crore numbers and use million/billion instead (more scientific). Then it basically becomes en-CA with nice things like ₹.

msla 5y ago
> gets rid of the lakh/crore numbers and use million/billion instead (more scientific). Million/billion is more familiar to non-Indians, but I don't understand how that system's more scientific. Also, from your lack of milliard, I'm guessing you're advocating for the short scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
- chongli 5y ago
  It’s more scientific because science has standardized on SI [1] units with metric prefixes [2]. Above 10^9 and below 10^-9 you can see the exponents change by increments of 3. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
kylehotchkiss 5y ago
A lakh is “1,00,000” not a million.
- bhaavan 5y ago
  A lakh is 0.1 Million. What's your point?
- gpvos 5y ago
  Yes, exactly. That is why they do not want to use it.
as1mov 5y ago
Heh good luck with that, it would be as difficult as asking USA to move to metric. :D