Crore
Crore (from Hindi करोड़ karoṛ [ kʌˈroːɽ ]) is the South Asian numeral for "ten million". Variants of the word occur in most of the South Asian languages. The number word crore is also used in Indian English and almost always replaces the European terms million and billion , together with lakh (100,000) . The figure '500 million' corresponds to '50 crore 'in this language. In India larger amounts of money in particular are expressed in crore (abbreviated cr., So Rs. 17 cr. = 170 million rupees ); this is also the title of the Hindi version of the television program Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Kaun Banega Crorepati (“Who will own a crore?”). In Sri Lanka the terms “million” and “billion” are used together with lakh , but not with crore .
Until a few decades ago, the unit crore was also used in Iran , where it denoted the numerical value 500,000.
Number system
The use of lakh and crore leads to the fact that the grouping of digits differs accordingly from the usual in the European-speaking area: So one writes "50,00,00,000" for 50 crore = 500 million. In the Indian number system , in the range of millions and billions, the terms for hundred, thousand and lakh are multiplied to the base of crore. However, the terms for a hundred and a thousand differ significantly in the Southeast Asian languages. In the following in Indian English as a thousand .
| 1 thousand | = 1,000 | (10 3 ) | ||||
| 1 lakh | = 1.00,000 | (10 5 ) | ||||
| 1 crore | = 1.00,00,000 | (10 7 ) | = | 100 lakh | ||
| 1 thousand crore | = 1,000,00,00,000 | (10 10 ) | = | 1000 crore = 100,000 lakh | ||
| 1 lakh crore | = 1,00,000,00,00,000 | (10 12 ) | = | 100 Thousand Crore = 100,000 Crore = 10,000,000 Lakh = German 1 Billion | ||
| 1 crore crore | = 1.00,00,000,00,00,000 | (10 14 ) | = | 100 Lakh Crore = 10,000 Thousand Crore = 10,000,000 Crore = 1,000,000,000 Lakh | ||
| 1 thousand crore crore | = 1,000,00,00,000,00,00,000 | (10 17 ) | = | 1000 Crore Crore = 100,000 Lakh Crore = 10,000,000 Thousand Crore = 10,000,000,000 Crore |
Word origin
The word crore comes from the Sanskrit word कोटि koṭi . The forms with r as Panjabi kroṛ or Hindi karoṛ are hypercorrect formations that an alleged kr replicate -Anlaut of Sanskrit (which in the following languages regularly k would have been).
See also
- Myriad , ancient Greek for 10,000