Small Gross to Lakhs (sm gr to lakh)
1 small gross equals 0.0012 lakhs exactly.
How to convert small gross to lakhs
To convert small gross to lakhs, multiply the number of small gross by 0.0012. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply lakhs by 833.3333333 (rounded).
lakhs = small gross × 0.0012
Example: 10 small gross = 0.012 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
Small Gross (sm gr)
Ten dozen, 120 items, also called the long hundred. A medieval English counting unit for goods.
The small gross is 120, ten dozen, and it has more names than uses: great hundred, long hundred, and small gross all point to it. Behind it lies a habit of mixing twelves and tens. In Iceland and Scandinavia a hundred made of ten twelves had its own name, tolfrátt hundrað, to tell it apart from an ordinary hundred of ten tens. In Old Norse counting, the same system made a thousand equal to 1,200.
In England the long hundred was common in trade, and a proverb contrasted five score, meaning 100, for men, money, or pins with six score, meaning 120, for other goods. Nails were often sold by it. Around 1300 the Assize of Weights and Measures recorded a hundred kippers as 120 fish and a hundred ells of linen as 120 ells. The usage faded as Arabic numerals, which assume base 10, spread from the 14th century. Against familiar units, 120 is 10 dozen and five sixths of a gross.
1 small gross = 120 pieces (exactly).
Sources: World Wide Words: Tolfraedic (long hundred); Wikipedia: Long hundred; Wikipedia: Dozen
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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