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Why do they call it K for 1000 2024?

Amelia Lewis | 2023-05-13 22:27:19 | page views:1615
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Ethan Patel

Works at the International Labour Organization, Lives in Geneva, Switzerland.
To minimize confusion I would stick with K for a thousand. K comes form the Greek kilo which means a thousand. In the metric system lower case k designates kilo as in kg for kilogram, a thousand grams. Even here there is some ambiguity.
2023-05-23 22:27:19

Harper Cole

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To minimize confusion I would stick with K for a thousand. K comes form the Greek kilo which means a thousand. In the metric system lower case k designates kilo as in kg for kilogram, a thousand grams. Even here there is some ambiguity.
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