If, like me, you are a non-Indian, find reading Indian new sources valuable, but don't really know your lakh from your crore, and find the placement of commas in Indian numbers utterly baffling, this guide to the Indian numbering system will prove helpful:

Term/ Figure/ No. of zeros/ In words

kharab/ 1,00,00,00,00,000/ 11/ 100 billion

I have a question with the numerical system did our languages start by one number representing one word. And if so where can i find something of this sort

Posted by: Jason on December 31, 2004 3:19 AM

Numeric design is possibly one of the most contested arguments in the entire hierarchical structure of literature. The Papal Latin Colleges just cannot resist sitting down on numeric change. But that, - as they say -, is an entirely new can of worms.

Should you have access to a library, you could do much worse than to peruse some mathematical titles, although do not expect these volumes to be readily accessible on the shelves.

Makers of Mathematics, by Stuart Hollingdale; published by Pelican Books various impressions, first published 1989 10987654321

Mathematical Thought, by Morris Kline
First published in 1972 by Oxford University Press Inc, -in one volume

First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, (three volumes), 1990

Posted by: Softley on January 4, 2005 5:18 AM

Numeric design is possibly one of the most contested arguments in the entire hierarchical structure of literature. The Papal Latin Colleges just cannot resist sitting down on numeric change. But that, - as they say -, is an entirely new can of worms.

Should you have access to a library, you could do much worse than to peruse some mathematical titles, although do not expect these volumes to be readily accessible on the shelves.

Makers of Mathematics, by Stuart Hollingdale; published by Pelican Books various impressions, first published 1989 10987654321

Mathematical Thought, by Morris Kline
First published in 1972 by Oxford University Press Inc, -in one volume

First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, (three volumes), 1990

Posted by: Softley on January 4, 2005 5:26 AM