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Why 5k instead of 5000?
by undfg 5y ago
Why 5k instead of 5000?
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoThey mean the same thing.
- tremon 5y agoCareful, this might devolve into speculation whether it was really 5000 or if they meant 5120.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoHN submission form has an upper limit on characters for the link title. This may have forced the submitter to substitute 5000 for 5k.
- sp332 5y agoIt's approximate. 5,000 looks more specific. Kind of like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures#Ways_to_denote_significant_figures_in_an_integer_with_trailing_zeros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures#Ways_to_de...