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		rdl on Sept 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Need a Basic Income Guarantee Tangentially, but I'm always thrown by the Indian counting system for large numbers (lakh, crore, etc). Does anyone else use separators at other than the 10^3 used in the Arabic system? I know in Japanese/Chinese it is 10^4 in native language, but when they write numbers in Arabic form it tends to be in the 10^3 format.

seanmcdirmid on Sept 1, 2013 [–]

I only wish the Chinese used 10^3 when writing large numbers, I have a hard time translating wan into million for large prices....

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