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IN your review (p. 195) of “Field and Garden Crops of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh” you speak of the peculiar system of numeration used by the author, as in the instance 6,79,06,496, expressing sixty-seven millions, &c. Perhaps I may be allowed to point out that this marking is quite in accordance with the native Indian method of numeration, in which there is no word equivalent to “million.” In India the series runs thus:—Thousands, tens of thousands, lakhs, tens of lakhs, krors (or crores). A lakh is a hundred thousand, a kror is ten millions.
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DREW, F. Indian Numeration. Nature 28, 245 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028245e0
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