Acrore(/krɔːr/;abbreviatedcr) denotesten million(10,000,000 or 107inscientific notation) and is equal to 100lakhin theIndian numbering system.It is written as1,00,00,000with the local 2,2,3 style of digit group separators (one lakh is equal toone hundred thousand,and is written as 1,00,000).[1]
It is widely used both in official and other contexts inAfghanistan,Bangladesh,Bhutan,India,Maldives,Myanmar,Nepal,PakistanandSri Lanka.
Etymology
editThe wordcrorederives from thePrakritwordkroḍi,which in turn comes from theSanskritkoṭi(कोटि),[2]denoting ten million in theIndian number system,which has separate terms for most powers of ten from 100up to 1019.Thecroreis known by various regional names.
Money
editLarge amounts of money inIndia,Bangladesh,Nepal,andPakistanare often written in terms ofcrore.For example 150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million) rupees is written as "fifteencrorerupees","₹15 crore ".[1]In the abbreviated form, usage such as "₹15 cr "is common.[3]
Trillions(in theshort scale) of money are often written or spoken of in terms oflakh crore.For example,one trillion rupeesis equivalent to:[citation needed]
- One lakh crore rupees
- ₹1 lakh crore
- ₹105+7
- ₹1012
- ₹10,00,00,00,00,000 inIndian notation
- ₹1,000,000,000,000 in metric notation
See also
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References
edit- ^ab"Knowing our Numbers".Department of School Education And Literacy.National Repository of Open Educational Resources. Archived fromthe originalon 16 February 2016.Retrieved13 February2016.
- ^Oxford English Dictionary,1st ed., 1893,s.v.'crore'
- ^Posamentier, Alfred S.; Poole, Peter (23 March 2020).Understanding Mathematics Through Problem Solving.World Scientific.ISBN978-981-4663-69-4.
Sources
edit- Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911)..Encyclopædia Britannica(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- "Crore".Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary.