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Re:The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States... by McDiesel on Thursday September 11, 2014 @02:38PM (#8304317)
I think you got your numbers backwards... 1600 IRN ~ 1 USD, right? Your way, your lasik costs about $54M..

So you can get full Lasik for ~$50USD?

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Re:The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States... by amitparikh on Thursday September 11, 2014 @02:43PM (#8304351)
A "lac" (or "lakh") is a unit of 100,000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh

(See also, "crore" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore)

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Re:The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States... by vbit on Thursday September 11, 2014 @02:43PM (#8304353)
1 USD ~ 60 INR

https://www.google.com/search?q=34000+inr+in+usd

=~ $600 US

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Re:The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States... by vijaykiran on Thursday September 11, 2014 @02:43PM (#8304356)
1 lac(or lakh) = 100,000 So 34k INR = 34,000 INR ~ 550 USD
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