[noindiecred]

Just as a tiny side note here, this is my (U.S. native English speaker) first encounter with the word “lakh,” and it seems an incredibly useful word.

[the_lucifer]

Haha, for others here, lakh and crore stand for 10^5 and 10^7 respectively kind of an intermediary between the usual million and billion that we use in the west.

[cuteboy19]

India came up with the beautiful decimal place value system but somehow got stuck with this defective system.

Unlike the normal way to split numbers

  1,234,567,000

We have the strange

  123,45,67,000

Which is

  1 hundred crore, 45 lakh, 67 thousand