October 24, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Seggerman (10/24/2008)
A lakh (also written lac) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; 105). It is widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Pakistan, and is often used in Indian English.Exact pronunciation varies in different South Asian languages. In Hindi it is (IPA) [la:k?], in British English [lak] (homophone with British "lack") or [l?:k] (homophone with British "lark"), and in American English [l?k] (homophone with American "lock"). In English the word is used both as an attributive and non-attributive noun, and with either a marked ("-s") or unmarked plural: "1 lakh people" or "1 lakh of people", "5 lakh rupees", "5 lakh of rupees", "5 lakhs rupees", "5 lakhs of rupees" are all to be found.
The Indian numbering system also uses separators differently than the Western system — after the first three digits, a comma divides every two rather than every three digits, thus:
* Indian system: 12,12,12,123 5,05,000 7,00,00,00,000.
* are the same quantities as Western system: 121,212,123 505,000 7,000,000,000
This accords with the Indian naming system, which has units for thousand, hundred thousand, ten million, etc.
I knew that 😀
October 24, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Seggerman (10/24/2008)
A lakh (also written lac) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; 105). It is widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Pakistan, and is often used in Indian English.Exact pronunciation varies in different South Asian languages. In Hindi it is (IPA) [la:k?], in British English [lak] (homophone with British "lack") or [l?:k] (homophone with British "lark"), and in American English [l?k] (homophone with American "lock"). In English the word is used both as an attributive and non-attributive noun, and with either a marked ("-s") or unmarked plural: "1 lakh people" or "1 lakh of people", "5 lakh rupees", "5 lakh of rupees", "5 lakhs rupees", "5 lakhs of rupees" are all to be found.
The Indian numbering system also uses separators differently than the Western system — after the first three digits, a comma divides every two rather than every three digits, thus:
* Indian system: 12,12,12,123 5,05,000 7,00,00,00,000.
* are the same quantities as Western system: 121,212,123 505,000 7,000,000,000
This accords with the Indian naming system, which has units for thousand, hundred thousand, ten million, etc.
Well, thank goodness for Wikipedia, but don't you think that you should credit someone when you cut and paste their work verbatim? Otherwise it is technically plagiarism, isn't it?
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October 27, 2008 at 6:38 am
my bad, then
is Wikopedia protected intellectual property?
October 27, 2008 at 8:22 am
They use what is called "Copyleft". It's all explained at their Copyright page, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights
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