Hundred to Lakhs (100 to lakh)

1 hundred equals 0.001 lakhs exactly.

1 hundred = 0.001 lakhs

How to convert hundred to lakhs

To convert hundred to lakhs, multiply the number of hundred by 0.001. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply lakhs by 1,000.

lakhs = hundred × 0.001

Example: 10 hundred = 0.01 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

Hundred (100)

General & non-SICurrent unit

One hundred.

The English word hundred descends from Old English hundred and, further back, from a Proto-Germanic compound that joined the old root for 100 with a word meaning count or row. For much of history it did not always mean 100. Old Norse counted large numbers in twelves of tens, and medieval England used a long hundred of 120 beside the short hundred of 100. Around 1300 the Assize of Weights and Measures had both in play: a hundred kippers or a hundred ells of hemp canvas or linen meant 120, while a hundred fresh herring meant 100.

The word also named a historical subdivision of southern English counties, notionally 12,000 acres. Today a hundred is simply ten tens, five score, or a tenth of a thousand, and the SI prefix hecto stands for 10². The long hundred faded as Arabic numerals, which rely on base 10, spread from the 14th century onward.

1 hundred = 100 pieces (exactly).

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

Lakh (lakh)

Indian subcontinentCurrent unit

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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