Baker's Dozens to Lakhs (13 to lakh)
1 baker's dozen equals 0.00013 lakhs exactly.
How to convert baker's dozens to lakhs
To convert baker's dozens to lakhs, multiply the number of baker's dozens by 0.00013. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply lakhs by 7,692.307692 (rounded).
lakhs = baker's dozens × 0.00013
Example: 10 baker's dozens = 0.0013 lakhs.
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
Baker's Dozen (13)
Thirteen items. Traditionally explained as medieval English bakers adding a thirteenth loaf to each dozen; the tie to bread-weight laws is plausible but unproven.
A baker's dozen is thirteen, one more than the twelve a customer asked for. The usual explanation is that medieval English bakers added an extra loaf to stay out of trouble under the Assize of Bread and Ale, which tied the price of bread to the price of wheat. Henry III revived the law in 1266, and bakers who sold short weight could be fined, pilloried, or flogged. The extra bread is traditionally called the vantage loaf or the in-bread.
How well attested is the story? The Assize and its penalties are well documented, and the early 15th-century London book Liber Albus describes an old custom of giving retailers 13 loaves for the price of 12, which one historian reads as a resale margin rather than a safeguard. The phrase itself is recorded only from the late 1500s, with Thomas Nashe in 1596, and no surviving record links it directly to the law. The Assize regulated weight, not count, so the tidy explanation has gaps. Reference sources differ in how firmly they accept the link, but none cites direct proof.
1 baker's dozen = 13 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Phrase Finder: Baker's dozen; Wordorigins.org: baker's dozen; Wikipedia: Baker's dozen
Lakh (lakh)
One hundred thousand (10⁵). The standard unit in the Indian numbering system, written 1,00,000.
Gambling stakes may have named the lakh. The Sanskrit word lakṣa originally meant a mark, a target or a stake in gambling, and in the Classical Sanskrit of the Gupta era it became the numeral for 100,000. English borrowed it from South Asia, and other languages did too: in Malay and Indonesian, laksa means 10,000 instead. The Indian numbering system gives a name to nearly every second power of ten, which is why a hundred thousand gets its own word rather than being called ten myriads or a hundred thousands.
A lakh is 100,000, written 1,00,000 under Indian digit grouping: the first three digits from the right form one group and every later group has two digits. It is the everyday system in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, where it is preferred over the international one. Rupee amounts are stated in lakhs, so 150,000 rupees is 1.5 lakh. Indian English also uses lakhs of as a loose phrase for very many, and formal publications usually give foreign currencies in the international system and rupees in lakhs and crores.
1 lakh = 100,000 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Lakh; Wikipedia: Indian numbering system
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