Indian numbering system

<div id="siteSub" style="font-size: 12.8800001144409px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div><div id="contentSub" style="font-size: 11.7600002288818px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em 1em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); width: auto; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump" style="overflow: hidden; height: 0px; zoom: 1; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-top: -1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system#mw-head" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system#p-search" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"></a></div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="hatnote" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">This article is about digit grouping of numbers in India. For the symbols used to write digits in India, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numerals" title="Indian numerals" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Indian numerals</a>.</div><table class="metadata mbox-small noprint selfref" style="font-size: 12.3199996948242px; clear: right; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 4px 1em; width: 22em; line-height: 1.25em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.9em; text-align: center; height: 118px;"><img alt="" src="https://img1.daumcdn.net/relay/cafe/original/?fname=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F3%2F39%2FExample.of.complex.text.rendering.svg%2F40px-Example.of.complex.text.rendering.svg.png" width="40" height="19" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Example.of.complex.text.rendering.svg/60px-Example.of.complex.text.rendering.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Example.of.complex.text.rendering.svg/80px-Example.of.complex.text.rendering.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="58" data-file-height="28" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;"></td><td class="mbox-text plainlist" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.9em; width: 190.9375px; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 11.7040004730225px; height: 118px;"><b>This article contains <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_family_of_scripts" title="Brahmic family of scripts" class="mw-redirect" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Indic text</a>.</b>Without proper <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support_(Indic)" title="Help:Multilingual support (Indic)" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">rendering support</a>, you may see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake" title="Mojibake" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">question marks or boxes</a>, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: inherit;">The <b>Indian Numbering System</b> is used in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">India</a> as well as in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bangladesh</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Nepal</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Pakistan</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sri Lanka</a>. It is based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system#Vedic_numbering_systems" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Vedic numbering system</a> in which numbers over 9,999 are written in two-digit groups (or a mix of two- and three-digit groups) rather than the three-digit groups used in most other parts of the world. In Pakistan, this system is used in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_language" title="Urdu language" class="mw-redirect" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Urdu</a> and other regional language media, but not in English-language media.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: inherit;">The terms <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh" title="Lakh" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">lakh</a></i> (100,000 – that is to say 1,00,000 in the Indian system) and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore" title="Crore" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">crore</a></i> (10,000,000 – that is to say 1,00,00,000 in the Indian system) are used in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English" title="Indian English" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Indian English</a> to express large numbers. For example, in India 150,000 rupees becomes 1.5 lakh rupees, written as <span title="INR">₹</span>1,50,000 or INR 1,50,000, while 30,000,000 (thirty million) rupees becomes 3 crore rupees, written as <span title="INR">₹</span>3,00,00,000 with commas at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_(number)" title="1000 (number)" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">thousand</a>, <i>lakh</i>, and <i>crore</i> levels, and 1,000,000,000 (one <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,000,000,000" title="1,000,000,000" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">billion</a>) rupees (one hundred crore rupees) is written <span title="INR">₹</span>1,00,00,00,000.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: inherit;">A simplified conversion between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numbers" title="Arabic numbers" class="mw-redirect" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Arabic</a> and Indian numbering systems is :</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: inherit;">1 million (1,000,000) = 10 lakh</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: inherit;">1 billion (1,000,000,000) = 100 crores</p></div><p><br></p><p><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Indian Numbering System uses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark" title="Decimal mark" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">separators</a> differently from the Arabic system; in such numbers of at least one lakh (one hundred thousand), a comma divides every two rather than every three digits, thus:</p><table class="wikitable" style="font-size: 14px; margin: 1em auto; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><tbody><tr><th align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Indian system</th><th align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Arabic system</th></tr><tr><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">5,05,000</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">505,000</td></tr><tr><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">12,12,12,123</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">121,212,123</td></tr><tr><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">7,00,00,00,000</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><p>7,000,000,000<br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system" target="_blank" class="tx-link"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><br></p>