Goons Getting Ahead: Incremental Improvments BFC Edition

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > Goons Getting Ahead: Incremental Improvments BFC Edition

Tomfoolery: Oct 8, 2004

spwrozek posted:

I always just go $1K, $1M, $1B... seems too annoying for the other way.

K is for Kelvin. Thousands is lower case k!

But anyways at my net worth it's a lot simpler to use scientific notation

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Tomfoolery: Oct 8, 2004

spwrozek posted:

lol. I guess my point is everyone knows what you mean with $1k of $1K or $1M or $1m, etc.

I felt bad for my pedantry and looked it up. Some industries such as underwriters use M for thousands, based on the roman numeral. Those sources use MM to be thousand thousand = million which is dumb because the roman numeral MM is 2k. But I guess it means that M is ambiguous while MM isn't. k for thousand and m for million is Greek (kilo and mega).

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