Kharab (Indian) to Dozens (kharab to doz)
1 kharab (Indian) equals 8,333,333,333 dozens (rounded).
How to convert kharab (Indian) to dozens
To convert kharab (Indian) to dozens, multiply the number of kharab (Indian) by 8,333,333,333. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply dozens by 1.2×10⁻¹⁰.
dozens = kharab (Indian) × 8,333,333,333
Example: 10 kharab (Indian) = 83,333,333,333 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
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
Dozen (doz)
Twelve items. Eggs, rolls and many goods are still sold by the dozen.
Dozen entered English from Old French douzaine, a group of twelve, built from douze, which comes from Latin duodecim, plus a suffix that makes a collective. Twelve earned its popularity partly by dividing evenly: it splits into halves, thirds, quarters, and sixths, which helps when sharing goods. One suggestion is that the roughly dozen lunar months in a solar year made twelve one of the earliest groupings.
Even in a decimal age, dozens persist in commerce, often for foods such as eggs. Larger multiples extend the system by twelves: a gross is 12 dozen, or 144, and a great gross is 12 gross, or 1,728. The idiom six of one, half a dozen of the other uses the unit to say two options come to the same thing. Twelve also gave English the baker's dozen, which adds one more.
1 dozen = 12 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Dozen
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