So how big is the Indian economy this year? If you were to put it in US dollars, the figure would be something approaching $2.5 trillion—which is easy to say and write. But if you were to put it in rupees, most people would say: about 160 lakh crore, or (rarely) Rs 1.6 crore crore. Numbers thus expressed are not only clumsy (like saying million million) but also, as a reader has pointed out, confound the logic of the Indian way of writing numbers. This is to have a comma after every two digits beyond the initial three, and different
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