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These include arab (100 crore, 1 billion), kharab (100 arab, 100 billion), nil or sometimes transliterated as neel (100 kharab, 10 trillion), padma (100 nil, 1 quadrillion), shankh (100 padma, 100 quadrillion), and mahashankh (100 shankh, 10 quintillion). In common parlance (though inconsistent), the lakh and crore terminology repeats for ...
Crore (/ k r ɔːr /; abbreviated cr) denotes the quantity ten million (10 7) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. In many international contexts, the decimal quantity is formatted as 10,000,000, but when used in the context of the Indian numbering system, the quantity is usually formatted 1,00,00,000.
Lakh and crore are common enough to have entered Indian English. For number 0, Modern Standard Hindi is more inclined towards śūnya (a Sanskrit tatsama) and Standard Urdu is more inclined towards sifr (borrowed from Arabic), while the native tadbhava-form is sunnā in Hindustani.
As a native Hindi speaker, I can confirm that both ways are correct, and can be used interchangeably: 1,00,00,00,000 = 1 arab | (Hindi pronounciation: ek arab) 100,00,00,000 = 100 crore | (Hindi pronounciation: sau crore) However, the first one is the traditional academic/formal usage as well as the part of the system being described.
Since 1957 an Indian rupee is divided into 100 paise. The decimalised paisa was originally officially named naya paisa meaning the "new paisa" to distinguish it from the erstwhile paisa which had a higher value of 1 ⁄ 64 rupee. The word naya was dropped in 1964 and since then it is simply known as paisa (plural paise).
Crorepati is a Hindi word for a person who has assets worth one crore i.e. 10 million rupees. Crorepati is merger of two words crore and pati; where means lord. [1] It may refer to: Kaun Banega Crorepati, an Indian game show based on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Kya Aap Banaingay Crorepati?, a Pakistani version of the game show
A lakh (/ l æ k, l ɑː k /; abbreviated L; sometimes written lac [1]) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation: 10 5). [1] [2] In the Indian 2, 2, 3 convention of digit grouping, it is written as 1,00,000. [3]
Indian rupee symbol in graphic form. The new sign is a combination of the Devanagari letter र ("ra") and the Latin capital letter R without its vertical bar. The parallel lines at the top (with white space between them) makes an allusion to the tricolour Indian flag and also depict an equality sign that symbolizes the nation's desire to reduce economic disparity.