Crore
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Crore (Template:IPAc-en; Hindi: करोड़; abbreviated cr) denotes the quantity ten million (107) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. In many international contexts, the decimal quantity is formatted as 10,000,000, but when used in the context of the Indian numbering system, the quantity is usually formatted 1,00,00,000.[1]
Crore is widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. The next named numbers after it are arab (i.e. a billion), and kharab (i.e. a trillion), although they are not widely used in the modern-day Indian subcontinent.
Etymology
The word crore derives from the Prakrit word Script error: No such module "lang"., which in turn comes from the Sanskrit Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".),[2] denoting ten million in the Indian number system, which has separate terms for most powers of ten from 100 up to 1019. The crore is known by various regional names.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Money
Large amounts of money in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan are often written in terms of crore. For example 150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million) rupees is written as "fifteen crore rupees", "Template:INR 15 crore".[1] In the abbreviated form, usage such as "Template:INR 15 cr" is common.[3]
Trillions (in the short scale) of money are often written or spoken of in terms of lakh crore. For example, one trillion rupees is equivalent to:
- Template:Indian Rupees1 lakh crore
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- Template:Indian Rupees10,00,00,00,00,000 in Indian notation
- Template:Indian Rupees1,000,000,000,000 in metric notation
See also
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References
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- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed., 1893, s.v. 'crore'
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