Roy Badami [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-05-03 📝 Original message:> the SI prefixes. People ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-05-03
📝 Original message:> the SI prefixes. People *do* use 63k USD, $63k, and $3M. I'll be the first one
As a counter argument, many sources (including the BBC) abbreviate
million to 'm' (and billion to 'bn'), e.g. $3m, $3bn.
I think any similarity with SI units here is coincidental.
roy
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2023-06-07 15:20:49Event JSON
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