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The Indian numbering system is used in Indian English and the Indian subcontinent to express large numbers. Commonly used quantities include lakh (one hundred thousand) and crore (ten million) – written as 1,00,000 and 1,00,00,000 respectively in some locales. [1]
The naming procedure for large numbers is based on taking the number n occurring in 10 3n+3 (short scale) or 10 6n (long scale) and concatenating Latin roots for its units, tens, and hundreds place, together with the suffix -illion. In this way, numbers up to 10 3·999+3 = 10 3000 (short scale) or 10 6·999 = 10 5994 (long scale
In standard form, it is written as 1 × 10 9. The metric prefix giga indicates 1,000,000,000 times the base unit. Its symbol is G. One billion years may be called an eon in astronomy or geology. Previously in British English (but not in American English), the word "billion" referred exclusively to a million millions (1,000,000,000,000). However ...
The Avataṃsaka Sūtra, a text associated with the Lokottaravāda school of Buddhism, has an even more extensive list of names for numbers, and it goes beyond listing mere powers of ten introducing concatenation of exponentiation, the largest number mentioned being nirabhilapya nirabhilapya parivarta (Bukeshuo bukeshuo zhuan ...
Hyphenate all numbers under 100 that need more than one word. For example, $73 is written as “seventy-three,” and the words for $43.50 are “Forty-three and 50/100.”
The number of cells in the human body (estimated at 3.72 × 10 13), or 37.2 trillion/37.2 T [3] The number of bits on a computer hard disk (as of 2024, typically about 10 13, 1–2 TB), or 10 trillion/10T; The number of neuronal connections in the human brain (estimated at 10 14), or 100 trillion/100 T
1.8 184.0 12.4 Banking 18 533 Power Finance Corporation: New Delhi 11.1 2.4 124.6 18.5 Financials 19 537 Bharat Petroleum: Mumbai 54.1 3.2 24.3 16.4 Oil and gas 20 569 Infosys: Bangalore 18.6 3.2 16.5 71.9 Infotech 21 571 Punjab National Bank: New Delhi 14.8 1.1 191.7 16.5 Banking 22 575 Union Bank of India: Mumbai 14.3 1.7 168.1 12.7 Banking ...
Each of these words translates to the American English or post-1974 British English word billion (10 9 in the short scale). The term billion originally meant 10 12 when introduced. [7] In long scale countries, milliard was defined to its current value of 10 9, leaving billion at its original 10 12 value and so on for the larger numbers. [7]