The traditional Indian numbering system, used today in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Burma), is based on a unique grouping of 2 decimal places, rather than the 3 decimal places commonplace in the West (China and Japan, for instance, use 4). The terms crore and lakh are in widespread use today in Indian English.
The table below follows the short scale usage of billion being a thousand million. In India, following British usage, the long scale was used, with one billion equivalent to a million million.
Only arab, crore and lakh are commonly used; the higher numbers listed above are relatively unheard of, though padma and kharab are sometimes used in Hindi. Others like Neel, Padma, Shankh are more commonly found in old sections of Indian Mathematics. More common is to use lakh and crore repeatedly or in combination, saying 1 lakh crore for 1012 or one trillion.
