To confuse the crore issue further...

In India and Bangladesh, a crore is equal to 10 million.

But in Iran, where the crore was in use until some decades ago, a crore is/was equal to half a million.

The vast majority of people in Iran are ethnically Persian.
A small minority of the remainder are ethnically Arab.
An arab is equivalent to 1 billion in India.
An arab is written 1,00,00,00,000.
1 arab = 100 crore.
100 crore is the value of vehicles stolen in Mumbai in the past 12 months.

(That Kevin Bacon game has nothing on the crore.)

And the Mumbai underworld slang for a crore is a khokha.

(Shout out to any Bollywood gangsters who may be reading!)

This concludes today's lesson in the Indian numbering system, about which I knew nothing before today.

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