Crore

Indian subcontinentCurrent unit

Ten million (10⁷), or one hundred lakh. Written 1,00,00,000 in the Indian numbering system.

1 crore = 10,000,000 pieces (exactly).

1 crore = 10,000,000 pieces

About the crore

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.

Sources: Wikipedia: Crore; Wikipedia: Indian numbering system

Crore conversion chart

1 crore expressed in every other counting & quantity unit:

Unit1 crore
Pieces10,000,000
Dozens833,333.3333
Lakhs100
Millions10
Billions (short Scale)0.01
Pairs5,000,000
Hundred100,000
Gross69,444.44444
Thousand10,000
Trillions (short Scale)0.00001
Score500,000
Half Dozens1,666,666.667
Quadrillions1×10⁻⁸
Reams20,000
Moles1.660539067×10⁻¹⁷
Baker's Dozens769,230.7692
Small Gross83,333.33333
Great Gross5,787.037037
Myriads1,000
Yi / Oku0.1
Arab (Indian)0.01
Kharab (Indian)0.0001
Billions (long Scale)0.00001
Quires400,000

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