Lakh
A
lakh (
Devanagari: लाख, ), also spelled
lac,
lacs,
lacks or
laksha, is a unit in the
Indian numbering system, widely used both in official and other contexts in
Bangladesh,
India,
Myanmar,
Sri Lanka, and
Pakistan. One lakh is equal to a
hundred thousand (10
5). A hundred lakhs make a
crore or ten million.
This system of measurement also introduces separators into numbers in a place that is different from what is common outside India. For example, 3
million (30 lakh) would be written as 30,00,000 instead of 3,000,000.
The
Mumbai underworld
slang for Lakh is
peti.
Among
Bengali Vaishnavas, "one lakh" is the customary daily quota of
harināma-japa (chanting Hari's names) [
1]; the expression "one lakh of names" is well known.
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Crore (= 100 lakh)
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Names of numbers in English*
Names of large numbers
