The Indians had a passion for large numbers. For example, in texts belonging to the Vedic literature, we find individual Sanskrit names for "each" of the powers of 10 up to a trillion and even 1062. (Even today, the words 'lakh' and 'crore', referring to 100,000 and 10,000,000, respectively, are in common use among English-speaking Indians.) One of these Vedic texts, the "Yajur Veda", even discusses the concept of numeric infinity ("purna" "fullness"), stating that if you subtract "purna" from "purna", you are still left with "purna".