Names of Numbers
The table below follows the short scale usage of billion being a thousand million. In India, following former British usage, the long scale was used, with one billion equivalent to one million million.
| Hindi (transliteration) South Asian English |
Indian figure | Power notation |
Arabic figure | Short scale Arabic (long scale Arabic) |
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| एक (ek) one |
100 | one | ||
| दस (das) ten |
101 | ten |
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| सौ (sau) one hundred |
102 | one hundred |
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| सहस्र (sahasra) / हज़ार (hazār) one thousand |
103 | one thousand |
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| दस हज़ार (das hazār) ten thousand |
104 | ten thousand | ||
| लाख (lākh) one lakh |
105 | one hundred thousand | ||
| अदन्त (adant) / दस लाख (das lākh) ten lakh |
106 | one million |
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| करोड़ (karoṛ) one crore |
107 | ten million | ||
| दस करोड़ (das karoṛ) ten crore |
108 | one hundred million | ||
| अरब (arab) one hundred crore |
109 | one billion (one milliard) |
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| एक हज़ार करोड़ one thousand crore / one lakh lakh/ten arab |
1010 | ten billion (ten milliard) |
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| खरब (kharab) ten thousand crore |
1011 | one hundred billion (one hundred milliard) |
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| एक लाख करोड़ one lakh crore/ 10 kharab |
1012 | one trillion (one billion) |
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| नील (neel / nīl) ten lakh crore |
1013 | ten trillion (ten billion) |
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| एक करोड़ करोड़ one crore crore |
1014 | one hundred trillion (one hundred billion) |
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| पद्म (padm) ten crore crore |
1015 | one quadrillion (one billiard) |
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| one hundred crore crore | 1016 | ten quadrillion (ten billiard) |
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| शङ्ख (shankh / śaṅkh) one thousand crore crore / one lakh lakh crore |
1017 | one hundred quadrillion (one hundred billiard) |
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