Random musings in India

The Indian numbering system is different than ours so I had a hard time using excel in my financial analysis.

• All numbers up to 99,9999 are the same as in the US.
  
• But the next number is one Lakh or 1,00,000. We would write 100,000. But they see it as ten 10,000s or one Lakh.
  
• Ten Lakhs makes up a Chore or 1,00,00,000, which to us is a cool million, 1,000,000.
  
• The terminology is easy to remember so when someone says so-and-so paid 1 chore for a house, you know that it's a million rupee mansion. But this gets pretty confusing when you are looking at a spreadsheet and your brain really wants the numbers to look "normal".

Signs I have seen in India:

• "Decent Hotel"
• "Gold Deposit Schemes"
• "leaptops"
• "Homely meals"
• and my favorite...painted on the back of all petrol tanker trucks: "Highly Inflammable"