Lakhs to Pieces (lakh to pc)
1 lakh equals 100,000 pieces exactly.
How to convert lakhs to pieces
To convert lakhs to pieces, multiply the number of lakhs by 100,000. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply pieces by 0.00001.
pieces = lakhs × 100,000
Example: 10 lakhs = 1,000,000 pieces.
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
Lakh (lakh)
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
Piece (pc)
A single item.
Piece is the plain unit for counting individual items, with no grouping implied. The word reached English from Old French piece, which came from Late Latin pecia or petia, meaning a fragment or a parcel of land. Its ultimate origin is uncertain, though Wiktionary notes a possible Gaulish source. It displaced the native Old English styce, which meant the same kind of thing.
Wiktionary defines it as a single item belonging to a class of similar items, and the word turns up in compounds such as by the piece, piece rate, and piecework. Every other counting unit in this family is just a fixed number of pieces: a pair is 2, a dozen 12, a gross 144, and a great gross 1,728. Treating the piece as the base is what lets any of them convert into any other by simple multiplication or division.
The piece is the reference unit for counting & quantity on this site.
Sources: Wiktionary: piece
Related conversions
- Pieces to lakhs (reverse)
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- Lakhs to billions (short scale)
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- Lakhs to hundred
- Lakhs to gross
- Lakhs to thousand
- Lakhs to trillions (short scale)
- Lakhs to score
- Lakhs to half dozens
- Lakhs to quadrillions
- Dozens to pieces
- Millions to pieces
- Crores to pieces
- Billions (short scale) to pieces
- Pairs to pieces
- Hundred to pieces
- Gross to pieces
- Thousand to pieces
- Trillions (short scale) to pieces
- Score to pieces
- Half dozens to pieces
- Quadrillions to pieces
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