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A bit odd topic but the commas seem strange in the numbers there: >Total Vaccination Doses: 1,00,13,38,625 Is that an Indian thing?
by crummy 5y ago
A bit odd topic but the commas seem strange in the numbers there:
>Total Vaccination Doses:
1,00,13,38,625
Is that an Indian thing?
- addicted 5y agoYes. Indians don’t usually break numbers down by the thousands. After thousand, numbers are usually grouped by the hundreds. So, for example, Indians usually use: Number: Indian Term/Others 1000: Thousand/Thousand 100,000: Lac/Hundred Thousand 1,000,000: 10 Lac/Million 1,00,00,000: Crore/Ten Million and so on…
- ra7 5y agoIt’s the Indian numeral system: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system
- deepakkarki 5y agoYes, India doesn't use millions and billions, but lakhs and crores. 10 lakh = 1 million 100 lakh = 1 crore
- kumarvvr 5y agoYes. 100 - Hundred 1,000 - Thousand 1,00,000 - Lakh 1,00,00,000 - Crore We don't use millions here.
- gigglesupstairs 5y agoYes, Indian Numeral System is different. Thousand is Thousand. Hundred Thousand is 1 Lakh. 1 Million is 10 Lakhs. 10 Million is 1 Crore. 1 Billion is 100 Crores.
- OJFord 5y agoThe words for the orders of magnitude don't group by thousand like in English (*thousand, million, billion, and so on) but by thousand (hazaar), hundred thousand (lakh), ten million (crore), and I don't know what next. So the comma separation reflects the words, as in English. > 38,625 38 hazaar ... Vs. 38 thousand ... > 13,38,625 vs. 1,338,625 13 lakh ... Vs. 1.3 million ... > 1,00,13,38,625 vs. 1,001,338,625 100 crore Vs. 1.0 billion This would no doubt be an entry in a hypothetical 'falsehoods programmers believe about numbers'! I.e. use things like Intl.NumberFormat in the browser, rather than home-grown 'group 3 digits and insert a comma then join again'. (* yes, I'm going to conveniently ignore 'hundred' and its occasional/domain use like 'twelve hundred'.)
- oblio 5y ago> The words for the orders of magnitude don't group by thousand like in English It's not only in English, as far as I know it's almost everywhere else, the entire Western world plus its former colonies and I think even places like China. The Indian subcontinent is the exception.
- taejo 5y agoChinese uses powers of ten thousand, I believe, but I don't know if that's reflected in the way numerals are written.
- hiyer 5y agoWe have Arab after Crore, but it's not commonly used. We just say 1000 crore or 1 lakh crore, etc.
- wtmt 5y ago> use things like Intl.NumberFormat in the browser, rather than home-grown 'group 3 digits and insert a comma then join again'. That home grown solution wouldn’t work in many western countries either, where comma is a decimal separator and dot/period is the thousands separator.
- OJFord 5y agoYep, true. But don't be tempted just to iterate on it to take account of that and whatever you discover next!