[HN Gopher] Odisha labourer who started YouTube channel in lockd...
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Odisha labourer who started YouTube channel in lockdown earns lakhs
(2021)
Author : krisgenre
Score : 44 points
Date : 2022-03-14 05:21 UTC (1 days ago)
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| meatsauce wrote:
| If I read this correctly, he didn't even have to take off his
| clothes.
| aliswe wrote:
| fyi 1 Lakh = 100k of something.
| aatharuv wrote:
| Yup, See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system
|
| In Indian English, for large numbers, especially in financial
| contexts, lakh (100,000), Crore (10 million) are generally
| used, often multiplicatively (e.g 1 lakh crore for 1 billion).
| Very_ rarely, Arab ( 1 billion) is also used.
|
| Numbers over 1 million were ambiguous at the time Indian
| English came into being -- 1 billion was either 1e9 (short
| scale), or 1e12 (long Scale), and is still ambiguous to older
| English-speaking Indians.
|
| I once remember a letter in the Times of India sometime in the
| 1990's, by someone decrying a multi-billion dollar expense for
| a power plant (the
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabhol_Power_Station that was to
| be built by Enron, as the then largest ever foreign investment
| in India) was unaffordable and cost India years of GDP. Which
| makes sense if you're thinking in Long Scale terms.
| Taniwha wrote:
| "billion" meaning 10^12 was the norm in the English speaking
| world outside of the US up until the 80s/90s - I think that,
| at least for money, the American billion gets used, while the
| English billion wasn't very useful and so never got used -
| which is why the English billion dropped from use
| drKarl wrote:
| What you refer to English billion (a million millions,
| rather than a thousand million s) is used in Europe instead
| of American billion. An European billion is an American
| trillion.
| Taniwha wrote:
| Yes - my point though is that usage of the American
| billion has taken over in the English speaking world
| largely because there is seldom a need for something the
| size of the English (or European ) one (except maybe for
| the American defence budget)
| samspenc wrote:
| 1 lakh rupees = 100,000 rupees = USD $1311 (as of this morning)
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