Crores to Thousand (crore to k)

1 crore equals 10,000 thousand exactly.

1 crore = 10,000 thousand

How to convert crores to thousand

To convert crores to thousand, multiply the number of crores by 10,000. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply thousand by 0.0001.

thousand = crores × 10,000

Example: 10 crores = 100,000 thousand.

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

Thousand (k)

General & non-SICurrent unit

One thousand (10³).

Thousand traces back through Middle English thousend to Old English þūsend and a Proto-Germanic form, and it has close relatives across the Germanic languages: German tausend, Dutch duizend, Swedish tusen, and Icelandic þúsund. Cognates also appear in Slavic and Baltic languages, among them Polish tysiąc and Lithuanian tūkstantis. Learned English vocabulary adds chiliad, a collective for a thousand, and millennium.

Its Roman numeral is M, and its scientific shorthand is the SI prefix kilo-, standing for 10³. The word has not always meant 1,000. In Old Norse counting, which grouped numbers in twelves of tens, a thousand meant 1,200. At ordinary scales, a thousand seconds is about 16.7 minutes, and a thousand days is about 2.7 years.

1 thousand = 1,000 pieces (exactly).

Sources: Wiktionary: thousand; Wikipedia: Long hundred; BIPM SI Brochure, 9th edition (2019)

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