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k is used for 1000, M for millions... damn americans.

• killface 11y ago
  blame the brits, not the americans.
  • psykovsky 11y ago
    Can we just blame one person instead of an entire country?
    • nkozyra 11y ago
      Blame Todd. Todd did this to us.
    • allard 11y ago
      Blame the accountants. We're engineers et al. We use SI.
• jeroen 11y ago
  K, not k.
  • tempestn 11y ago
    Actually, he's right; the abbreviation for kilo (thousand) is lower-case k. The abbreviation for mega (million) is upper case M. (Lower case m is milli (thousandth).)
• yen223 11y ago
  Unless you're talking about kilobytes, in which case k = 1024. Unless you're a strict follower of the IEC standard, in which case k = 1000, and what I was talking about was a kibibyte. Standards are hard. It's not just the Americans' fault