HAL signs 100 crore aircraft deal with Mauritius.

[kaykay]

HAL signs nearly Rs 100 crore deal with Mauritius - TOI Mobile | The Times of India Mobile Site

 

[Sulman Badshah]

Nice one ....

1 Question ??
why Indian use crore e.g 1000 crore etc ???
why not use any word replacing billion ?

 

[RKO]

Nice one ....

1 Question ??
why Indian use crore e.g 1000 crore etc ???
why not use any word replacing billion ?

crore and laks are sanskrit words! 100cr=1bil!
Indian Numbering System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[kaykay]

Nice one ....

1 Question ??
why Indian use crore e.g 1000 crore etc ???
why not use any word replacing billion ?

There is a word for billion, Its called arab.

 

[45'22']

Nice one ....

1 Question ??
why Indian use crore e.g 1000 crore etc ???
why not use any word replacing billion ?

100 crore =1 billion

But 100 crore sounds bigger than 1 billion

 

[Ammyy]

HAL already built more then 120 Dornier aircraft for Indian and foreign market.

Good news for HAL

 

[Sulman Badshah]

HAL already built more then 120 Dornier aircraft for Indian and foreign market.

Good news for HAL

how many have been exported and which countries

 

[Koovie]

crore and laks are sanskrit words! 100cr=1bil!
Indian Numbering System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That still does not make it any better... using these terms while the rest of the world is using billions and millions is just plains stupid....

The same goes for Americans which still havent adopted to the metric system.

 

[Yogijaat]

That still does not make it any better... using these terms while the rest of the world is using billions and millions is just plains stupid....

How so??

 

[dray]

Nice one ....

1 Question ??
why Indian use crore e.g 1000 crore etc ???
why not use any word replacing billion ?

Lakh and Crore are increase of one zero as in the rule in decimal point numbering system, so it is easier and more scientific. Million and Billion are anomalies to that system.

 

[axisofevil]

That still does not make it any better... using these terms while the rest of the world is using billions and millions is just plains stupid....

The same goes for Americans which still havent adopted to the imperial system.

And we never will. We earned that right if you wanna call it that by defeating the British Empire!

 

[Koovie]

And we never will. We earned that right if you wanna call it that by defeating the British Empire!

Shit... I meant the metric system of course