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A lakh (Devanagari: लाख, Urdu: لکھ, , Tamil இலட்சம்) also spelled lac, lacs, lacks, laksha, or lectcham (in Tamil) is a unit in the Indian numbering system, widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. One lakh is equal to a hundred thousand (105). A hundred lakhs make a crore or ten million. This system of measurement also introduces separators into numbers in a place that is different from that which is common outside India. For example, 3 million (30 lakh) would be written as 30,00,000 instead of 3,000,000. The Mumbai underworld slang for Lakh is peti. Among Bengali Vaishnavas, "one lakh" is the customary daily quota of harināma-japa (chanting Hari's names) *; the expression "one lakh of names" is well known.
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