Pieces to Arab (Indian) (pc to arab)
1 piece equals 1×10⁻⁹ arab (Indian) exactly.
How to convert pieces to arab (Indian)
To convert pieces to arab (Indian), multiply the number of pieces by 1×10⁻⁹. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply arab (Indian) by 1,000,000,000.
arab (Indian) = pieces × 1×10⁻⁹
Example: 10 pieces = 1×10⁻⁸ arab (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
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
Arab (Indian) (arab)
One hundred crore (10⁹), the same as a short-scale billion. Used in the South Asian number system.
Western numbers are named in steps of a thousand, with a new word at each third power of ten: thousand, million, billion. The Indian system adds a new word at every second power instead, giving lakh for 100,000, crore for 10 million, arab for 1,000 million and kharab for 100,000 million. An arab is a hundred crore, or 10 to the ninth power.
That equals the short-scale billion, so the two words name the same quantity, which sometimes causes confusion between Indian and international usage. Digits are grouped to match: the first three from the right are one group, and then pairs follow, so an arab is written 1,00,00,00,000 rather than 1,000,000,000.
The system is official and preferred in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and Indian English publications use lakh and crore for rupee amounts. Nepal and Sri Lanka used it in the past but have moved to the international system, and the Maldives still uses lakh in speech. Sanskrit mathematicians such as Shridhara named large numbers beyond koti in several incompatible ways, so older texts do not always give the same value.
1 arab (Indian) = 1,000,000,000 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Indian numbering system
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See all counting & quantity units.