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by pbhjpbhj 518 days ago
>At 2m29s, "8 crore bicycles & rickshaws running across India", meaning 80 million //

That's a new word for me (en-gb native). I assumed it meant something like '8 brands of...'. Thanks for clarifying.

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Yeah, I had to research "crore" today due to the word being mentioned. Another Indian number word is lakh = 100,000, which I only knew since a few years ago (living in Canada for 30 years).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh