Dictionary of Indian

Numerical Symbols
ESTORES | MACABANDING | MILLAN | VILLAFUERTE | YUNANI DE DEUS
What was Math in India like before?

 Most mathematical treatises (i.e. accounts) were written in verse forms similar to how
literature is written. Though literal explanations and examples were later added by
commentators, these were viewed as simplistic and reductive.
 Among the many contributions of Indian Mathematics, the decimal system and the
concept of zero are the most prominent ones.
 Katapayadi System of Numeration

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0  Since most mathematical treatises were

kha  ga ग gha  nga  ca च cha  Ja written inverse form, the Katapayadi system
ka क jha झ nya 
ख घ ङ छ  ज ञ was put in place to allow for easy
remembrance. In this system, letters are
ṭa  depicted as words or verses.
ट ṭha ठ ḍa ड ḍha 
ढ ṇa ण ta 
त tha थ da द dha 
ध
na 
न

pa प pha  ba ब bha  ma म

फ भ - - - - -

ya  ra  la  va  śha श sha ष Sa ha 

य र ल व  स ह - -
The general Katapayadi system rules are:
a. Each consonant has a set number to him according to the table above. For example, 'ba' will always be worth 3. In
contrast, number 5 can represented by nga or na or ma or sha.

b. All vowels that can stand alone mapped as 0.

c. When a combination occurs, the consonants are attached to non-living letters will always have a value. For example,
'kya' is built by k + yes + a. Consonant the one with vowels is yes. So the number corresponding to kya is 1.

d. There is no way to represent separators decimal on the system. e. Indians use the Hindu-Arabic numeral system for
numbering, which is traditionally written on value level that increases from left to right.
How it works

Let Stori opmalay serchinpordaray

1 = la 6 = por
= 3, 5, 2, 1, 6, 7, 8
2 = ma 7 = da
=8761253
3 = to 8 = ra
4 = ko 9 = mi
Keepkeepsapordami
5 = ri 0 = ke
= 0, 0 6, 7, 9
“Stori opmalay serchinpordaray =97600
Keepkeepsapodami”

- Marian Rivera (Unfaithful)

 Indian numbering system is used in the Indian subcontinent
(Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and in
Burma. To express large numbers, using the term “Lakh” in which the
number ten to the power five that is 100,000 or 1,00,000 and the term
“Crore” in which this is on the power seven that is 10,000,000 or
1,00,00,000 are used in Indian English. According to the Indian
numbering system, after ten thousand, the next power of ten is one lakh,
then ten lakh, then one crore, then ten crore, and so on.
 
As we notice, The Indian numbering system uses separators
 differently from the international norm. Instead of grouping digits by
three’s as in the international system, the Indian numbering system
groups the rightmost three digits together (until the hundreds place),
and thereafter groups by sets of two digits.
 Power Short scaleWestern
Indian figure International figure
South Asian English notation (long scaleWestern)

1 100 1 One
one
Ten
10 10 1
10 Scientific (SI prefix):
ten
deca-

100 102 100 One hundred

one hundred
One thousand
one thousand 1,000 103 1,000

10,000 104 10,000 Ten thousand

ten thousand

1,00,000 105 100,000 One hundred thousand

one lakh

One million
10,00,000 106 1,000,000
ten lakh

1,00,00,000 107 10,000,000 Ten million

one crore

10,00,00,000 108 100,000,000 One hundred million

ten crore

One billion
100,00,00,000 109 1,000,000,000 (one milliard)
one arab / one hundred crore

Ten billion
1,000,00,00,000 1010 10,000,000,000
one thousand crore / ten arab (ten milliard)
 One hundred billion
ten thousand crore / one kharab / one hundred 10,000,00,00,000 1011 100,000,000,000 (one hundred
arab milliard)

One trillion
1,00,000,00,00,000 1012 1,000,000,000,000 (one billion)
one lakh crore / ten kharab / one thousand arab

Ten trillion
ten lakh crore / one neel / one hundred kharab / 10,00,000,00,00,000 1013 10,000,000,000,000
(ten billion)
ten thousand arab

One hundred trillion

1,00,00,000,00,00,000 10 14
100,000,000,000,000 (one hundred
one crore crore / ten neel
billion)

One quadrillion
10,00,00,000,00,00,000 10 15
1,000,000,000,000,000 (one billiard)
one padma / one hundred neel / ten crore crore

Ten quadrillion
100,00,00,000,00,00,000 1016 10,000,000,000,000,000
ten padma / one hundred crore crore (ten billiard)

One hundred
quadrillion
one shankh / one hundred padma / one 1,000,00,00,000,00,00,000 1017 100,000,000,000,000,000
(one hundred
thousand crore crore / one lakh lakh crore
billiard)

One quintillion
10,000,00,00,000,00,00,000 10 18
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one trillion)
(ten shankh / ten thousand crore crore)
 Aryabhata is the Indian Mathematician who deserves a credit for
proliferation of decimal arithmetic calculation. In his ingenious digit-by-
digit algorithms for computing square roots and cube roots, which were
presented in his work Aryabhatiya. t is abundantly clear that the
underlying system of positional decimal arithmetic with zero, together
with some reasonably efficient algorithms for various arithmetic
operations, were known even earlier. One piece of evidence is the Indian
astronomical work Lokavibhaga (“Parts of the Universe”).