James wrote to jai on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:20:14 -0400:

j I am making appointment letter for the new joinees of my
j company with the help of mail merge, in which I have to put
j salary in number form for example 1219562662 and also in
j figure form for example One Billion Twenty one crore ninty
j five lakh sixty two thousand six hundred sixty two only.

JS IMHO, unless it is customary in your environment, it is not
JS good English to write out complicated numbers. I think what
JS you want would be a number format using the words "crore"
JS and "lakh" instead of the usual commas. Incidentally, even
JS in rupees, how do I arrange to get that impressive salary?

JS James Silverton
JS Potomac, Maryland

I noticed that Indian numerical notation has been discussed at
length previously (I believe Bernard Liegme had some useful
comments on it.) Try a search in Google Groups to get the comma
format. A small piece of news to me was that the Indian method
uses commas after odd powers of 10: 10^3, 10^5, 10^7 etc. (and
has names for each of these groups) instead of each three
digits as in the American/British system.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not