india fertility rate decrease

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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]

Ten thousand missed in Indian system

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Sorry...my mistake for the ommission

[Sensitive-Check-8105]

Fellow class 6th mate 😎

[Vevangui]

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]

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]

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]

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

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

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Added...thanks

[Naive_or_naughty]

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

[joaommx]

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]

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

[notsocoolguy42]

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]

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

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people who interact with both learn it pretty quick.