Pairs to Lakhs (pr to lakh)
1 pair equals 0.00002 lakhs exactly.
How to convert pairs to lakhs
To convert pairs to lakhs, multiply the number of pairs by 0.00002. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply lakhs by 50,000.
lakhs = pairs × 0.00002
Example: 10 pairs = 0.0002 lakhs.
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
Pair (pr)
Two items.
Pair comes from Old French paire, which grew out of Latin paria, the neuter plural of par, meaning equal. German Paar and Dutch paar are relatives of the same word. The core idea is two matching things taken together, as in a pair of shoes or gloves.
English also uses pair for single objects built from two connected parts. Scissors, spectacles, trousers, and jeans are plural-only nouns, so a counting word is needed: you say a pair of scissors or several pairs of jeans. That makes the unit slightly slippery. Six pairs of socks is 12 socks, but six pairs of scissors is only six objects. The word has other senses too, such as two people in a relationship or two cards of equal rank in poker, but as a quantity of loose items it is always two.
1 pair = 2 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wiktionary: pair
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
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