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More troubling is 'm' being used to refer to thousands, when the rest of the English-speaking financial world uses 'k' (which also makes little sense to me)
by tomc1985 9y ago
More troubling is 'm' being used to refer to thousands, when the rest of the English-speaking financial world uses 'k' (which also makes little sense to me)
- kbenson 9y ago> English-speaking financial world uses 'k' (which also makes little sense to me) It likely comes from SI prefixes. While there's not a standard base unit for currency, the fact they work for so many other units lends them towards easily inferred usage when applied to others. 1: http://www.npl.co.uk/reference/measurement-units/si-prefixes/ http://www.npl.co.uk/reference/measurement-units/si-prefixes...
- harry8 9y agok = kilo - prefix for one thousand.