BTW Rudyard Kipling named his house "naulakha" may be because it cost him 9 lakhs to build it. As for Indians using base 10 system for numbers, keep in mind that this system was invented there.
mkk On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:53:13 +0100, Rupert Reynolds <rreyno...@cix.co.uk> wrote: >For pairs of digits, I was thinking of commas as often used in India, where >an EV6 costs 60.95 Lakh, (Lakh is a multiple 100,000). In Rupees it's >quoted as Rs 60,95,000. > >The next multiple bigger is another factor of 100. The only group of 3 >digits is for units, tens and hundreds. > >Of course there are international businesses using groups of 3 in India as >well. > >At least it's base 10ten*! I read about some country using quinary, but >none so far using bakersdozenal. > >*ten, not 10. Every base is base 10. See jan Misali's >https://youtu.be/7OEF3JD-jYo if you're not convinced :-) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
