Re:Why are there so many Canadians in India?
by rocknor on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:43AM
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I really hope en-IN moves to American spellings and gets rid of the lakh/crore numbers and use million/billion instead (more scientific). Then it basically becomes en-CA with nice things like ₹.
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Heh good luck with that, it would be as difficult as asking USA to move to metric. :D
Re:Why are there so many Canadians in India?
by kylehotchkiss on Monday May 03, 2021 @06:12AM
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A lakh is “1,00,000” not a million.
Yes, exactly. That is why they do not want to use it.
A lakh is 0.1 Million. What's your point?
> gets rid of the lakh/crore numbers and use million/billion instead (more scientific).
Million/billion is more familiar to non-Indians, but I don't understand how that system's more scientific.
Also, from your lack of milliard, I'm guessing you're advocating for the short scale:
It’s more scientific because science has standardized on SI [1] units with metric prefixes [2]. Above 10^9 and below 10^-9 you can see the exponents change by increments of 3.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units