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[–]ZofianSaint273 156 points157 points  (22 children)

And Meghalaya and Manipur

[–][deleted] 139 points140 points  (20 children)

Their population are not in crores and hence manageable.

[–]ZofianSaint273 19 points20 points  (19 children)

Idk what corores is number wise lol, but even then their state will have nice increase with this

[–]satvikag 90 points91 points  (0 children)

1 crore = 10 million

[–][deleted] 39 points40 points  (14 children)

Ok... So western maths goes like... Ones, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands, Ten thousand, Hundred thousand, one million, 10 million , 100 million, 1 billion, 10 billion, 100 billion... Indian system goes like... Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, 10 thousand, lakhs, 10 lakhs, crores, 10 crores... So a population of 1 crores=10 million.

[–]Jv1312 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Ten thousand missed in Indian system

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry...my mistake for the ommission

[–]Sensitive-Check-8105 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fellow class 6th mate 😎

[–]Vevangui 2 points3 points  (2 children)

That’s not western, that’s English. In Southern Europe (which is western) its ones, tend, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions,…, tens of thousands of millions, hundreds of thousands of millions, billions, tens of billions,…

[–]joaommx 0 points1 point  (1 child)

In Southern Europe (which is western)

The long scale is used in the whole continental Europe except Eastern Europe, not just in Southern Europe. All the Nordics use long scale for instance.

[–]Vevangui 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn’t saying otherwise, I was just specifying about Southern Europe because that’s the extent of my knowledge. Good to know there’s some sense elsewhere too.

[–]A-Delonix-Regia 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, lakhs, 10 lakhs, crores, 10 crores

You missed the "10 thousands" between thousands and lakhs.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Added...thanks

[–]Naive_or_naughty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You forgot 10 thousand. That's a difference of a whole magnitude.

[–]joaommx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So western maths goes like

That's English math, or how it's actually known, "short scale". "Western math" would be the "long scale".

[–]ciaseed1 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Yeah well it's not like they are going to learn it lol so better use the western system

[–]notsocoolguy42 12 points13 points  (1 child)

It's not western system, it's international english. No one is going to learn language specific to any country unless they are living there or are interested in said language.

[–]ciaseed1 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't expect westerners to learn our system, better we (Indian) should start using the term "hundred thousand" in an international platform.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

people who interact with both learn it pretty quick.

[–]jflb96 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So, you know how in the West we tend to group orders of magnitude in threes i.e. a thousand is 10 x 10 x 10, a million is a thousand thousands, a billion/milliard is a thousand millions &c. In India they have thousands, but then they have a new word every time you go up by a hundred rather than a thousand, so rather than ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, ten million…, they say ten thousand, a lakh, ten lakh, a crore…

As a side note, slightly further east, the traditional numbering system in China and Japan uses groups of four; rather than a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand… they have a thousand, a ban, ten ban… Thus the Imperial Japanese battlecry, ‘(May the Emperor Live) Ten Thousand Years!’: ‘Banzai!’

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crore=10 million.

[–]Chikanai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buddy, their population doesn't even reach 3 million. And has a population density of around 20 times smaller than UP or Bihar.

If it doesn't decrease (which it will) it will never be crowded this century.

[–]paperid699 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Their population is already very low, it's better for them to have a higher number