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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

More specifically, an Indian divider for large numbers, kind of like how 万 (read 'man') works in Japanese. While Japanese (and I think Chinese) divide numbers greater than 1,000 in increments of 1万, or 10,000, up until you hit 100,000,000, in India, large numbers get split into lakh, representing groups of 100,000.

[–] dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's so neat how different cultures adapted to numbers. Like French have something like 4 times 20 (and?) 2 to mean 82. In Hungarian if you say billió, that is one trillion rather one billion. We riff on the ending of million to express billion: milliárd.

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