The Indian way of writing numbers, particularly large ones, results in a lot of unneeded mental gymnastics. It might be a good time to bring it to an end.
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I don’t agree with this article. Indian Numeric System is certainly a simple and ordered system. As an Indian, I don’t feel any need to change it to something foreign. Anyone outside from India who can’t understand it, I would say ‘Just Learn it’.
अगर आप विकिपीडिया पर जाए तो आपको पता चलेगा की हमारा इंडियन सिस्टम उनसे काफी बेहतर है क्या अपनी चीजे केवल इसलिए छोड़ दें क्युकी अमेरिका कर रहा है पूरे इंडियन सबकोंटिनेंट मतलब सात आठ देशों में इस प्रणाली का प्रयोग किया जाता है एक पहचान है हमारी इसके कारण
और मेरे हिसाब से million billion practical नहीं लगते मुझे।
This article’s suggestion goes to prove that not all journalism can be supported. Indian numbering system is a lot more sophisticated than international system. It’s easier to read larger numbers, check Wikipedia for the the dummy version if you can’t follow.
i wonder why was it there in the first place. I am still trying to look for an answer as to why Indian system is different from that of Americans and who made these.
I feel it easy using the Indian numerical system. These trillion and billion stuff rather makes me feel like mental gymnastics. Mr Ninan must understand that well. He can choose to throw away many things, until one day his identity gets thrown out.
The article should have been on the reverse tone. India should start using its authentic system of lakhs crores arab and kharabs.
Rather , as in every other aspect, it is trying to follow what the US and UK does.
Its the opposite that confuses us. We all study lakhs and crores in schools and suddenly you expect us to talk in millions. Lakhpati and crorepati are common terms understood by indians. Stop this blind following of foreign influence. No different than 200 years ago.
The point is not to throw away the Indian numbering system entirely, as it makes complete sense to use it in native languages. The point is that it should’ve never been used in English to begin with, since it’s not native and therefore, clumsy.
Indian numerical demarcation system is more practical and makes better sense of how big a number is. The moment the number is going beyond 1000, counting in thousand comes in help to make clearer picture. Where as Lakh / Crore counting need not wait for 1000x, instead 100x helps in making an impact that number s are going bigger. Please understand that our system in not uniform smaller and bigger, 00,00,000, signifying that 1000 is smaller number and 00,000 is big enough number.
Indians should use and follow our system.
People who are into the international million/billion system can easily do the conversion back and forth, we need not change our system for their ease.
Further, We should continue to use dozen, inch, feet where applicable.
Uh…no. Inches and feet are part of the imperial system, and are clunky and pointless. India should stop using them (although, those units have technically been illegal for over 50 years, so it should maybe start enforcing its laws). Using the metric system fully is the way to stop wasting money and time teaching kids what inches and feet are and dealing with those archaic units mixed with the other units.
Maybe just evolve the numeric system in a hybrid fashion :- Lakhs, 10 lakh = 1 mn, 10mn = 1 crore, 100 cr = 1bn, 1000bn = 1 trillion and so on – no confusion. On larger numbers we converge to world while on smaller ones we retain ours.
I don’t agree with this article. Indian Numeric System is certainly a simple and ordered system. As an Indian, I don’t feel any need to change it to something foreign. Anyone outside from India who can’t understand it, I would say ‘Just Learn it’.
अगर आप विकिपीडिया पर जाए तो आपको पता चलेगा की हमारा इंडियन सिस्टम उनसे काफी बेहतर है क्या अपनी चीजे केवल इसलिए छोड़ दें क्युकी अमेरिका कर रहा है पूरे इंडियन सबकोंटिनेंट मतलब सात आठ देशों में इस प्रणाली का प्रयोग किया जाता है एक पहचान है हमारी इसके कारण
और मेरे हिसाब से million billion practical नहीं लगते मुझे।
This article’s suggestion goes to prove that not all journalism can be supported. Indian numbering system is a lot more sophisticated than international system. It’s easier to read larger numbers, check Wikipedia for the the dummy version if you can’t follow.
i wonder why was it there in the first place. I am still trying to look for an answer as to why Indian system is different from that of Americans and who made these.
I feel it easy using the Indian numerical system. These trillion and billion stuff rather makes me feel like mental gymnastics. Mr Ninan must understand that well. He can choose to throw away many things, until one day his identity gets thrown out.
The article should have been on the reverse tone. India should start using its authentic system of lakhs crores arab and kharabs.
Rather , as in every other aspect, it is trying to follow what the US and UK does.
Its the opposite that confuses us. We all study lakhs and crores in schools and suddenly you expect us to talk in millions. Lakhpati and crorepati are common terms understood by indians. Stop this blind following of foreign influence. No different than 200 years ago.
The point is not to throw away the Indian numbering system entirely, as it makes complete sense to use it in native languages. The point is that it should’ve never been used in English to begin with, since it’s not native and therefore, clumsy.
Indian numerical demarcation system is more practical and makes better sense of how big a number is. The moment the number is going beyond 1000, counting in thousand comes in help to make clearer picture. Where as Lakh / Crore counting need not wait for 1000x, instead 100x helps in making an impact that number s are going bigger. Please understand that our system in not uniform smaller and bigger, 00,00,000, signifying that 1000 is smaller number and 00,000 is big enough number.
Indians should use and follow our system.
People who are into the international million/billion system can easily do the conversion back and forth, we need not change our system for their ease.
Further, We should continue to use dozen, inch, feet where applicable.
Uh…no. Inches and feet are part of the imperial system, and are clunky and pointless. India should stop using them (although, those units have technically been illegal for over 50 years, so it should maybe start enforcing its laws). Using the metric system fully is the way to stop wasting money and time teaching kids what inches and feet are and dealing with those archaic units mixed with the other units.
Maybe just evolve the numeric system in a hybrid fashion :- Lakhs, 10 lakh = 1 mn, 10mn = 1 crore, 100 cr = 1bn, 1000bn = 1 trillion and so on – no confusion. On larger numbers we converge to world while on smaller ones we retain ours.