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Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by rplnt on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:47AM (#23768399)
What region are you in that this is how the number is formatted?
Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by Liru on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:54AM (#23768424)
Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by gmanis on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:18AM (#23768797)
This is formatted as “lacs” or “lakhs”.

A “lac” is equivalent to 100 thousand.

So it would be colloquially said as 53 lacs 80 thousand.

Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by dgellow on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:53AM (#23768417)
I would guess Japan. Looks like the "man" concept they have to group numbers by 10k.

Edit: it seems to be also the case in other east asia countries, see this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad#East_Asia

Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:54AM (#23768681)
Japan and China use regular Western comma grouping for Latin numerals. The myriads are used only when using Japanese/Chinese numerals: 1万円 for 10,000 yen, 2億円 for 200,000,000.
Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by dgellow on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:36PM (#23771524)
Thanks, I didn't know the formatting was following rules of Latin/Roman numerals. I remember having difficulties when learning to group numbers by 10k (with the -man suffix) during japanese courses more than a decade ago, I always assumed that was used everywhere.
Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by dgellow on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:27PM (#23771438)
Downvoted for a wrong guess? That's a bit harsh...
Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by codegladiator on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:56AM (#23768431)
Yeah India