{"id":3815,"date":"2011-10-28T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2011-10-28T03:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T03:42:00","slug":"indian-names-for-big-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=3815","title":{"rendered":"Indian names for big numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FMlisMg4VPo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ganitha Kerala, the Kerala School of Astronomy and Maths, has given a lot of names for big numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Western <\/p>\n<p>Myriad  = 10^4<br \/>Million = 10^6<\/p>\n<p>Indian names are <\/p>\n<p>Shata   = 10^2<br \/>Sahasra = 10^3<br \/>Ayutha  = 10^4<br \/>Laksha  = 10^5<br \/>Dasa Laksha = 10^6 ( Million ) <br \/>Koti    = 10^7<br \/>Dasa Koti  = 10^8<br \/>Vrinda    = 10^9<br \/>Kharva    = 10^10<br \/>Nikharva  = 10^11<br \/>Mahapadma = 10^12<br \/>Mahakharva = 10^13<br \/>Padma      = 10^14<\/p>\n<p>In the Western, we have<\/p>\n<p>Million  = 1000^2<br \/>Billion  = 1000^3<br \/>Trillion = 1000^4<\/p>\n<p>or <\/p>\n<p>Nillion = 1000^(n+1)<\/p>\n<p>where n is the number. Tri meaning 3 and trillion = 1000^(3+1)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ganitha Kerala, the Kerala School of Astronomy and Maths, has given a lot of names for big numbers. Like the Western Myriad = 10^4Million = 10^6 Indian names are Shata = 10^2Sahasra = 10^3Ayutha = 10^4Laksha = 10^5Dasa Laksha = 10^6 ( Million ) Koti = 10^7Dasa Koti = 10^8Vrinda = 10^9Kharva = 10^10Nikharva = &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=3815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Indian names for big numbers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}