[lbo-talk] 'Delhi can`t do without a metro`

[Sujeet Bhatt]

On 10/20/06, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
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> Your losses in 2004-05 were Rs 76 crore.
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> [WS:] While we are at this, why do Indians measure things in lakhs and
> crores instead of thousands and millions?
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> Wojtek

Just as in the Western counting system you cannot have a thousand of
any number (thus thousand thousands become a million and thousand
millions become a billion and so on), the Indian counting system puts
an embargo on a hundred of any number. Thus hundred thousands become a
lakh and hundred lakhs (10 million) become a crore. And so on.

Hope this helps.

Sujeet