The Indian counting system

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Posted: 16 years ago

anyone else find the indian currency system a bit confusing.. i always thought a lakh was a million.. found it recently that its only a 100k.... and that a crore is infact a million..

Why is it like that..? Why dont they just equate the lakhs to a million.. or just eliminate it altogether.. wouldn't it be easier to just count in thousands.. 100 thousand and stuff..

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Posted: 16 years ago

Lolz!!😆 The rest of world find US system confusing!

It goes like this: Start counting from the last digit of a particular number): For ex in this particular number 1,00,00,000 .

And count (from R to L), Units, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands, Ten Thousands, Lakhs, 10 lakhs, 1 crore. We were taught this in school..See its that easy😊

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Originally posted by: sunandshine
Lolz!!😆 The rest of world find US system confusing!
It goes like this: Start counting from the last digit of a particular number): For ex in this particular number 1,00,00,000 .

And count, Units, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands, Ten Thousands, Lakhs, 10 lakhs, 1 crore. We were taught this in school..See its that easy😊

wait a minute.. so a crore is actually 10 million.. ..😆

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Posted: 16 years ago

Lakh is 100K. Crore is 10 million. Now how is that confusing?? 😕

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Posted: 16 years ago

Originally posted by: Meena1

wait a minute.. so a crore is actually 10 million.. ..😆

Yep😳

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Originally posted by: souro
Lakh is 100K. Crore is 10 million. Now how is that confusing?? 😕

all of it.. its hard to explain.. i think india is the only country to count at the 100's level .. everyone else counts at the 1000's level.. it gets confusing when you are converting dollars to rupees.. 😕

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Posted: 16 years ago

Originally posted by: Meena1

all of it.. its hard to explain.. i think india is the only country to count at the 100's level .. everyone else counts at the 1000's level.. it gets confusing when you are converting dollars to rupees.. 😕

But it's fun na. You only have ten, hundred, thousand, million, billion. We use all these plus lakh and crore too as intermediate stops. More names, more fun. 😛
And just why should we bother about how the whole world counts when we're counting money or solving a maths problem inside our country. 😛

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Posted: 16 years ago

Originally posted by: Meena1

all of it.. its hard to explain.. i think india is the only country to count at the 100's level .. everyone else counts at the 1000's level.. it gets confusing when you are converting dollars to rupees.. 😕

Tere paas 100,000$ hain??😲 at a given time, practically one does not have that much money to conversion mein problem nahi hotee😆 for everything else there are online calculators😆

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Posted: 16 years ago

wahah i thought a lakh was 1000 pounds. isit?

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Originally posted by: souro

But it's fun na. You only have ten, hundred, thousand, million, billion. We use all these plus lakh and crore too as intermediate stops. More names, more fun. 😛
And just why should we bother about how the whole world counts when we're counting money or solving a maths problem inside our country. 😛

at the national level its fine.. i guess.. cuz thats what you learn in school.. but how abt at the international level.. i just though this was a bit odd.. ~~> 1,00,00,000 ....

i was helping a cousin of mine with math when i went to india.. and i am yelling at him that his commas are in the wrong place.. he told me that i didnt know anything 😆😆 and that he'll just go bug someone else for help..😆😆😆