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Day: 11 May 2015

TIL that in India long numbers are separated by a comma after the first three and every TWO digits thereafter: so “10 million” would be written as 1,00,00,000 (“1 karoṛ”).

This link was originally posted to /r/todayilearned. See more things from Dan's Reddit account.

The original link was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

11 May 2015

Repost posted at 16:56 UTC on 11 May 2015.

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