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India has an ancient numbering system using a unique grouping of 2 decimal places, rather than the commonplace 3 decimal places. Although crore and lakh are in widespread use today in Indian English, higher denominations are relatively unheard of, though arab is used sometimes in Hindi. General usage of higher denominations today are recursive eg. 2 lakh crores (2 followed by 12 zeros). The old Indian system referred to a billion as the old British billion; equivalent to a million million.

The table below follows the widespread usage of billion being a thousand million.

*India's unique number system*
Term	Figure	No of zeros	In words
lakh (lac)	1,00,000	5	Hundred Thousand
crore	1,00,00,000	7	Ten million
arab	1,00,00,00,000	9	1 billion
kharab	1,00,00,00,00,000	11	100 billion
neel	1,00,00,00,00,00,000	13	10 trillion
padam	1,00,00,00,00,00,00,000	15	1 quadrillion
shank	1,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,000	17	100 quadrillion

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