Lakhs to Thousand (lakh to k)
1 lakh equals 100 thousand exactly.
How to convert lakhs to thousand
To convert lakhs to thousand, multiply the number of lakhs by 100. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply thousand by 0.01.
thousand = lakhs × 100
Example: 10 lakhs = 1,000 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
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
Thousand (k)
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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