Introduction

Basic number systems are very different from each other, whether it is how numbers are written/said or how they are expressed. Ex: In the international number system, they write numbers like this: 1766. We would read it as this: one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six. In the Indian number system, we usually write numbers differently. In the International number system, we express thousands, millions, and billions, but in the Indian number system, we express numbers thousands, lakhs, and crores. Lakhs is expressed as 1,00,000 while crore is expressed as 1,00,00,000. When one million is expressed numerically, it is written as 1,000,000. One thousand can be broken down into three zeros. It thus has six zeroes. One million equals 10 lakhs since both have the same count of zeros.

Thus we can say that one million is equal to Ten lakhs,

I.e., 1,000,000 = 10,00,000.

Expansion of one million or ten lakhs

One million or ten lakhs can be expanded in both the, International number system and the Indian number system.

1. Expansion form in the International number system

\begin{array}{l}

1\times\text {thousand}\times \text { thousand}\\

= 1\times 1000 \times 1000 \\

=1,000,000\: \text {million}

\end{array}

2. Expansion form in the Indian number system

\begin{array}{l}

1\times \text {ten lakhs }+0 \times \text {lakhs}+0 \times \text {ten thousand}+0 \times \text {thousand}+0\times \text { hundred }+0 \times \text {tens }+0 \times \text {ones } \\

= 1\times 1000000+0 \times 100000 +0 \times 10000 +0 \times 1000+0 \times 100+0 \times 10+0 \times 1 \\

=10,00,000\: lakhs

\end{array}

Conversion Table - One million equals how many lakh?

The table of conversion from million to lakhs, helps in understanding the numbers from both the systems properly. Following is the table: