Millions to Kharab (Indian) (M to kharab)
1 million equals 0.00001 kharab (Indian) exactly.
How to convert millions to kharab (Indian)
To convert millions to kharab (Indian), multiply the number of millions by 0.00001. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply kharab (Indian) by 100,000.
kharab (Indian) = millions × 0.00001
Example: 10 millions = 0.0001 kharab (Indian).
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
Million (M)
One million (10⁶).
Million comes from Italian. Old Italian milione was built from mille, a thousand, plus an augmentative ending, so it began as something like a big thousand. The name proved useful as a stem: by 1475 the French mathematician Jehan Adam was already building larger names from it, bymillion and trimillion, for 10¹² and 10¹⁸. The short and long scales agree on the million itself, 1,000,000 or 10⁶, and diverge only for the larger names. The SI prefix mega- stands for 10⁶.
Millions are hard to feel. Counting out a million items one by one is famously laborious, yet a million seconds lasts only about 11.57 days. A billion seconds, by contrast, is roughly 31.7 years.
1 million = 1,000,000 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Million; Wikipedia: Names of large numbers; BIPM SI Brochure, 9th edition (2019)
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
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