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Heh good luck with that, it would be as difficult as asking USA to move to metric. :D

A lakh is “1,00,000” not a million.

A lakh is 0.1 Million. What's your point?

Yes, exactly. That is why they do not want to use it.

> gets rid of the lakh/crore numbers and use million/billion instead (more scientific).

Million/billion is more familiar to non-Indians, but I don't understand how that system's more scientific.

Also, from your lack of milliard, I'm guessing you're advocating for the short scale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

It’s more scientific because science has standardized on SI [1] units with metric prefixes [2]. Above 10^9 and below 10^-9 you can see the exponents change by increments of 3.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix