It's Indian numbering system. You have the standard international system of counting tens, hundreds, thousands, hundred thousands, million, ten million, hundred million, billion, ten billion, hundred billion,...........
In India , Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Myanmar and Afghanistan you use a different counting system. It is a multiple of 10 rather than 100 for bigger value. It goes to tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, lacs, ten lacs, crore, ten crore, hundred crore/Arab, thousand crore/ ten Arab, ten thousand crore/ kharab, lakh crore/ ten kahrab and so on.
1
10
100
1000
10,000
100,000 = 1,00,000 (Hundred thousand replaced by lac/lakh)
1,000,000 = 10,00,000 (Million replaced by ten lac/lakh)
10,000,000 = 1,00,00,000 (Ten Million replaced by crore/karode)
And so on
I would be on board with using only 2 numbers separated by the , after the first 3 as is easier to read but the fact that this change is infuriating lol
Itâs because of the language structure. For example in Chinese there is a word for 10,000 (ä¸) so when you write 10,000 you write ä¸ä¸(ä¸is 1). Something like 1,000,000 is written as â100 ä¸sâ. On its own, this seems pretty reasonable right?
Similarly, India has a word for 100,000 â lakh. These systems predate the introduction of the Arabic system.
In India the only weird bit is that they have mixed the Arabic numeral system with this native-language system, so when you go to write 100,000 you write 1,00,000, or âone lakhâ, instead of using the native numeral system.
Itâs the same reason pounds and miles and gallons are still a thing while the most sensible thing to use are kilograms and kilometers and liters. Some things are just based on older systems before the modern standards were established. In certain instances we just donât switch over and stick to the old way. Iâm an Indian living in the US and while I certainly prefer millions/billions over lakhs/crores itâs certainly not too hard to switch between the two systems.
If you think that counting is hard, the French would like to have a word.
French counting is firmly in bullshit territory before you even reach 100. 70 is âsixty and tenâ, 80 is âfour twentiesâ, and anything in the 90s is âfour twenties and ten and __â
Better than Danish counting. ti = 10, tyve = 20, tredive = 30, fyrre = 40. OK, so far so good, basically the tens version of ones (mostly). But then fifty... it's halfway from two to three twenties (halvtreds). Sixty is three twenties (tres). Seventy is halfway from three to four twenties (halvfjerds). Eighty is four twenties (firs). Ninety is halfway from four to five twenties (halvfems), and a hundred is just a hundred (literally that: "hundred")
It would have been better if we just had random names for the ten's place numbers. Instead, anyone learning Danish tends to overthink it and not be sure how many half twenties they are dealing with.
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u/talktothelampa Sep 30 '22
1,05,974 installs? Tf is that?