Kharab (Indian) to Crores (kharab to crore)
1 kharab (Indian) equals 10,000 crores exactly.
How to convert kharab (Indian) to crores
To convert kharab (Indian) to crores, multiply the number of kharab (Indian) by 10,000. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply crores by 0.0001.
crores = kharab (Indian) × 10,000
Example: 10 kharab (Indian) = 100,000 crores.
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
Kharab (Indian) (kharab)
One hundred arab (10¹¹).
Kharab sits two steps above the crore in the sequence of Indian number names, because it is a hundred arab, that is 10 to the eleventh power. Written in Indian digit grouping it is 1,00,00,00,00,000, with a three-digit group on the right and pairs of digits before that. In the Western short scale the same value is 100 billion.
The name is rarely heard in daily speech. Ordinary talk about money stops at lakh and crore, and the common stand-in for larger amounts is lakh crore, meaning 10 to the twelfth power, which Wikipedia says is used inconsistently. Kharab is chiefly seen in lists of the complete series, which continues with neel, padma and shankh at each hundredfold step.
Part of the reason for caution is that Sanskrit tradition has several competing name sets above koti. Shridhara and Bhaskara II give koti, arbuda, abja, kharva and nikharva, while the Valmiki Ramayana uses another set with different values. The kharab used here is the modern South Asian value, one hundred arab.
1 kharab (Indian) = 100,000,000,000 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Indian numbering system
Crore (crore)
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
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