Crores to Baker's Dozens (crore to 13)

1 crore equals 769,230.7692 baker's dozens (rounded).

1 crore = 769,230.7692 baker's dozens

How to convert crores to baker's dozens

To convert crores to baker's dozens, multiply the number of crores by 769,230.7692. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply baker's dozens by 0.0000013.

baker's dozens = crores × 769,230.7692

Example: 10 crores = 7,692,307.692 baker's dozens.

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

Crore (crore)

Indian subcontinentCurrent unit

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

Baker's Dozen (13)

Medieval EnglishTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

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

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