RE: Vocabulary

Its an indian measure of numbers - and equals a hundred thousand

1 lakh = 100,000

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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 10:56 AM
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I have seen this several times, and I am very curious as to what "lakhs" are. Is this a standard of measurement?

At 10:35 PM 5/15/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear DBA Gurus,
>
> I have some static data in two of my tables which contains lakhs
of
>records.

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