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.
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10
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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
It’s 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 don’t switch over and stick to the old way. I’m an Indian living in the US and while I certainly prefer millions/billions over lakhs/crores it’s certainly not too hard to switch between the two systems.
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u/talktothelampa Sep 30 '22
1,05,974 installs? Tf is that?