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AggravatingJudge7092 Apr 17, 2026 +19

1.5 Lakh = 150,000 if you were wondering

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Loose_Skill6641 Apr 17, 2026 -2

Indian maths is weird

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TeaSharp3154 Apr 17, 2026 +11

The currently used decimal system originated in India so actually everyone else is weird

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AggravatingJudge7092 Apr 17, 2026 +6

You can thank the Arabs for switching it up

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Snowee6399 Apr 17, 2026 +1

No, you are

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DirkBabypunch Apr 17, 2026 +17

It sure would be nice if Indian numbers were translated or written plainly when stories go to the rest of the world. Japanese numbers get translated. Spanish numbers get translated. Everybody else's news is written with regular thousands and millions when it's passed to an English speaking audience, and English numbers get translated when the stories go to them.

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kadala-putt Apr 17, 2026 +9

CNBC-TV18 is a business news outlet aimed at an Indian audience. Indian English is a thing. Just because they use English doesn't mean they have to cater to an international audience.

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Furthur_slimeking Apr 18, 2026 +2

I'm fine with it. It's good to learn new things.

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Felonphantom Apr 17, 2026 +14

As an Indian I wonder why people repeatedly post Indian numbers when nobody understands it. Find an alternative source or don't post it.

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borninthewaitingroom Apr 17, 2026 -2

For general info: Lakh - push 5 zeros left 100,000 Crore- push 7 zeros left 10,000,000 Arab - push 9 zeros left 1,000,000,000 India seems to have become part of the English speaking world, given their literature in our language and other cool stuff. These three words are now English. Notice the pattern 2N + 3. Example ₹1,00,00,00,00,000 = 10,000 crore or 1 kharab or 1 lakh crore. They divide by 3 only the 1st group, then by 2. Class is dismissed children.

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Mitchverr Apr 17, 2026 +2

Sir we dont need to put more Indian words in the British museum to claim them as ours. We stopped that in 1947. :p (as a note: India has been in the English speaking world for a long time, especially with Hinglish)

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borninthewaitingroom Apr 17, 2026 +1

I post a nice, harmless explanation with a cute ending and I get one these tiring comments. Your generation should make up a cute word for this and put it on Urban Dictionary. Btw, give back the Rosetta Stone, which you stole from the French, who stole it from the Egyptians. Keep the Ancient Greek pottery. You stole the junk while France stole the masterpieces. Maybe it's all been returned. I haven't been there since the 80s. Have a good one. /ns.

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sproge Apr 17, 2026

Interesting. How do you say 100.101, 101.000, and 199.989 please?

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DeepResearch7071 Apr 17, 2026 +1

I am assuming the . is a comma and not a decimal point? In that case- One Lakh One Hundred One ; One Lakh One Thousand ; One Lakh Ninety Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty Nine

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sproge Apr 17, 2026 +2

Thank you, interesting, at least it's not Roman level of bullshittery. And u/yakovgolyadkin is quite correct, thanks to you too.

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DeepResearch7071 Apr 17, 2026 +1

No problem. The decimal numerical system that we use (or as they are called in the West, Arabic numerals), was actually invented in India, from where it reached the Arabs (who call it Hindu numerals) and was later spread to Europe by Arab traders. The links in the Old World between the Ancient Chinese, Indians, Persian and Roman civillisations and their subsequent medieval counterparts are quite interesting

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yakovgolyadkin Apr 17, 2026 +2

>I am assuming the . is a comma and not a decimal point? You'd be correct. In some places (like Germany, for example) the . and , are reversed for writing numbers from the way it's done in places like the US.

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