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you may want to change G to B. In the United States, where dollars are used, G is more likely to mean "Grand", or 1k. B would be billion. Or, when all else fail
by sukuriant 15y ago
you may want to change G to B. In the United States, where dollars are used, G is more likely to mean "Grand", or 1k. B would be billion. Or, when all else fails, just type it out.
- TeMPOraL 15y agoHe probably meant "giga". Things like kUSD or M$ appear to have come from science - it's putting an SI prefix to a unit. Personally, when I write M$, I mean one megadollar, not 1 milion dollars.
- sukuriant 15y agoThat's fantastic; however, that's not how the general public writes it
- TeMPOraL 15y agoYou don't write M$ or G$ to general public at all.
- sukuriant 15y agoAgreed. Though we do sometimes write $5M, which is functionally equivalent. I've noticed in internet communication, it's common to say a numeral before the dollar sign. For example, "You're going to end up spending 100$ on that".
- TeMPOraL 15y agoIn this case it is, but it isn't in others (like kUSD or G$). Oh, I always thought that you write a numeral before the dollar sign... Thanks for pointing that out. It differs between currencies - for example, british pounds are written before numeral (£42), but polish złoty are written after (42zł).
- fhars 15y agoExept that billion is ambiguous, it might either be 10^9 (Giga) or 10^{12} (Tera).
- sukuriant 15y agoNot in the United States where the USD originates. And like I said, when all else fails, write it all out. Billion in USD in the United States is 10^9. Gigadollars is a made-up SI-ified term in the US G is short for grand, like "that car costs 100G's" for a $100,000 car, making it further unacceptable. Long story short, to be most easily understood, it's a good idea to use the vernacular of the area [edit: changed asterisk-asterisk to ^. Apparently two adjacent *'s aren't recognized]