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Comment Crore, lakh etc (Score 5, Informative) 176

Indians use a different system of counting. After the thousand, they have a name for every second power of ten (unlike the western system of naming every third power). The system goes like this: 1000: 1e3: Thousand 100 thousands: 1e5 : Lakh 100 lakhs : 1e7 : Crore So 386 crores at about 46 INR a dollar is about 86 million USD.
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Submission + - Mobile phones to monitor traffic congestion (computerworld.com)

shas3n writes: "In an interesting and innovative way, Bangalore city, India has come up with a way to monitor road traffic congestion by monitoring the density of mobile phones. This can give the quantitative and directional information of traffic flow without a significant additional infrastructure investments.
The congestion data is already available at http://btis.in/live.htm"

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