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Indian Place Value Chart

Indian Place Value Chart

Understanding Indian place value chart is a fundamental concept for mathametics. It helps us to understand the value of digits based on their position in a number. While the world commonly uses the International Number System, India follows its own unique structure called Indian Place Value System.

What is Indian Place Value System?

Indian Place value system is a method of reading and writing large numbers using specific groups. It breaks number into periods like ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, lakhs and crores. Each period is separated by commas for clarity.

Indian Place Value Chart

Place

Value

Crores

1,00,00,000

Ten Crores

10,00,00,000

Lakhs

1,00,000

Ten Lakhs

10,00,000

Thousands

1,000

Ten thousands

10,000

Hundreds

100

Tens

10

Ones

1

Difference between International and Indian place value chart

Feature

Indian System 

International System

First comma after

3 digits from right 

3 digits from right

Subsequent commas

Every 2 digits 

Every 3 digits

Group names

Ones, thousands, lakhs

Ones, thousands,millions

Example: 1 crore

1,00,00,000

10,000,000

Practice Questions

Solve them

4,35,667

54,77,890

3,36,213

23,46,590

22,64,460

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