Timeline for Why do South Asians often use "lakhs" and "crores" instead of "millions"? What is the historical origin of this system?
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| Apr 2 at 15:44 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | Perhaps the answer is the same as: "Why does the US use miles and pounds, unlike the rest of the world?" | |
| Apr 2 at 13:03 | answer | added | Mallika H | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 12, 2023 at 5:00 | comment | added | smarisetti | I was surprised to see that Myanmar also uses the word 'lakh' to donate 100,000 like South Asians. Not sure if they actually used this term historically or introduced by British-India. | |
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| Jan 25, 2022 at 20:03 | comment | added | paul garrett | Actually, there is some conflict between use of "billion" and related words in US, UK, versus France, etc. Same words, but off by a factor of 1000. | |
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| Jan 21, 2022 at 14:29 | comment | added | xngtng | "Nor, there is a special numbering system for China and Japan." While thousand separators have been more widely used recently due to the development of financial and computing industries, China certainly have its own traditional numbering system (10000 based) that is still widely used and in terms of language it is the only valid grammatical one. | |
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| Dec 29, 2021 at 12:52 | history | asked | Arunabh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |