Arab (Indian) to Crores (arab to crore)
1 arab (Indian) equals 100 crores exactly.
How to convert arab (Indian) to crores
To convert arab (Indian) to crores, multiply the number of arab (Indian) by 100. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply crores by 0.01.
crores = arab (Indian) × 100
Example: 10 arab (Indian) = 1,000 crores.
Large-number names differ around the world: this site uses the short scale (billion = 10⁹) by default, and lists the long-scale billion separately.
About these units
Arab (Indian) (arab)
One hundred crore (10⁹), the same as a short-scale billion. Used in the South Asian number system.
Western numbers are named in steps of a thousand, with a new word at each third power of ten: thousand, million, billion. The Indian system adds a new word at every second power instead, giving lakh for 100,000, crore for 10 million, arab for 1,000 million and kharab for 100,000 million. An arab is a hundred crore, or 10 to the ninth power.
That equals the short-scale billion, so the two words name the same quantity, which sometimes causes confusion between Indian and international usage. Digits are grouped to match: the first three from the right are one group, and then pairs follow, so an arab is written 1,00,00,00,000 rather than 1,000,000,000.
The system is official and preferred in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and Indian English publications use lakh and crore for rupee amounts. Nepal and Sri Lanka used it in the past but have moved to the international system, and the Maldives still uses lakh in speech. Sanskrit mathematicians such as Shridhara named large numbers beyond koti in several incompatible ways, so older texts do not always give the same value.
1 arab (Indian) = 1,000,000,000 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Indian numbering system
Crore (crore)
Ten million (10⁷), or one hundred lakh. Written 1,00,00,000 in the Indian numbering system.
Sanskrit had separate words for most powers of ten from 100 up to 10 to the 19th. The crore comes from one of them: the Prakrit kroḍi, which derives from the Sanskrit koṭi, and in Hindi and Urdu it is karoṛ. In Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam the cognate is kōṭi. Outside South Asia, koṭi travelled mostly through Buddhist texts, and in Indonesian and Malay keti means 100,000, a lakh, instead of ten million.
A crore is 100 lakh, or 10,000,000, and is written 1,00,00,000 in Indian grouping. It is the natural unit for large sums of money in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, so 150,000,000 rupees is 15 crore rupees. For amounts in the trillions, the system's next named units, arab and kharab, are rarely used, so people say lakh crore for 10 to the 12th. Nepal and Sri Lanka both used the system in the past but have moved to international numbering in recent years.
1 crore = 10,000,000 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Crore; Wikipedia: Indian numbering system
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