So I am sitting in an orientation session talking about marketing spend and apartment prices. I am prepared for the quick conversion that I’ve been having to make between rupees and dollars (drop a zero and divide by four) when suddenly the presenter starts talking about total media spending during the cricket tournament amounting to one Crore. What the hell is a Crore?
Did you know that they have a different numbering system in India? Neither did I? Who does that? I understand the calendar thing, I mean there are not down with JC, I get it. But seriously, numbers? Here is the deal. The system is still base ten and all, but India adopted special names and strange comma placements for larger numbers. A Lakh is one hundred thousand, while a Crore is ten million. The comma placement is different too. One Lahk is written 1,00,000. One Crore is written 1,00,00,000. If they didn’t start this whole number thing a few millennia ago I’d say someone should straighten them out for being so pretentious as to have their own system. But they did, so I guess I’ll have to learn to make more conversions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh
Maybe this is why Indian guys are so good at math, because they have to run all these crazy conversions between Crores and Lakhs before still arriving at the answer thirty seconds before me. Huh!?
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