More specifically, an Indian divider for large numbers, kind of like how 万 (read 'man') works in Japanese. While Japanese (and I think Chinese) divide numbers greater than 1,000 in increments of 1万, or 10,000, up until you hit 100,000,000, in India, large numbers get split into lakh, representing groups of 100,000.

[–] dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

It's so neat how different cultures adapted to numbers. Like French have something like 4 times 20 (and?) 2 to mean 82. In Hungarian if you say billió, that is one trillion rather one billion. We riff on the ending of million to express billion: milliárd.

[–] sag@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago

Oh, Is it my turn to tell the Indian Numbering System?

Here how we divide

100 > Sau Hundred 1000 > Hajar Thousand 1,00,000 > 1 Lakh Hundred Thousand 1,00,00,000 > *1 crore * Ten Million 10⁹ > 1 Arab 100 Crores or 1 Billion 10¹¹ > *1 Kharab * Hundred Billion 10¹³ > 1 Nil Hundred Trillion 10¹⁵ > 1 Padma Quadrillion 10¹⁷ > 1 Sankh Hundred Quadrillion

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That’s very informative. Thank you.