ermm...why do we call $2000(or anything that have the value of thousand)as ' K '..e.g: $2k...????
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I would think it is related to the metric prefix "kilo-" meaning 1,000 and abbreviated "k".
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k is a short form of 'kilo'. \n1 kilbyte is actually equal to 1024 bytes. But it is customary to round it to 1000. People in the computer industry have a tendency to use their technical terms in their day to day communication as well. So, 6k-8k salary means the salary will be in the range of 6000 to 8000.
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House numbers:\n\nYou pay 50¢ per digit.  Therefore 8000 costs $2.00.\n\nYou made a mistake in the statement though.  You are not conjugating properly.  it should be 15 costS and 100 costS, since they are singular items (as a group), not multiple :)\n\nLike you said, one way to avoid the conjugation issues is to use the past, but you can also use this way:\n\nI bought 1 for 50¢, 15 for $1.00, and 100 for $1.50.  How much did I pay for 8000?
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Well, I think two pretty typical errors I've seen would be transposing (when you're meant to type in $10,480 but you type in $10,840) and misclassifying items (like putting a prepaid expense in Long-term Assets when it's Current).\n\nHope this helps!
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In the US the progression is:\n   Hundred     -   100\n   Thousand    -   1,000\n   Million     -   1,000,000\n   Billion     -   1,000,000,000\n   Trillion    -   1,000,000,000,000\n   Quadrillion -   1,000,000,000,000,000\n\nAfter that they stick with the "normal" prefixes, eg) quint... sex... sep...\n\nMy favorite is Gazillion.  I had a boss once ask me how many zeroes were in a Gazillion - I asked him "Big G or Little G"  ;-)  Oh, and then there is 1 with a 100 zeroes after it which was appropriated by that other search engine.
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Are you looking at computer code?  B indicates binary base and D indicates decimal.\nB100 = 1*2^2 + 0*2^1 + 0*2^0.\nD1000 is one-thousand.
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In some countries a  billion is (english speaking countries) = 1,000,000,000.-\n\nIn other countries a billion is (as you say in Germany, France, in all spanish talking countries and others)  = 1,000,000,000,000.-\n\n\nBoth are correct because is just a way of how they named that number but of course we have to be very careful and see if the person is english speaker or not.\n\n\n---Addition---\n \nAnother difference, in some countries they write 1.000.000.- , or 3,141592 and in other countries they write 1,000,000 and 3.141592
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2k = 2000\n2k3 = 2003\n\nUsed to represent years. Started using after Y2K bug.
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1,000,006 is correct for one million six. If it is one million AND 6 then it would be 1,000,000.06. Notice the point. The word "and" is where the point goes.
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1000. Anything that has "kilo" in it means 1,000 of something.
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useually 1000 dollars THATS ONE THOUSAND
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When people talk about something being xdigits of money, they are referring very vageuly to the amount of money.  Basically, they are referring to the number of digits in the number.  If you refer to something being in the six digits, you are saying that it is at least 100,000 because that is how many digits are in that number.  A seven digit number would be millions: 1,000,000.  Eight would be tens of millions: 10,000,000.
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In terms of the SI, 'K' has nothing to do with kilometres. It is the symbol for the prefix kilo-, but is in no way specific to kilometres, despite its being used as slang for kilometres, in much the same way as kilo is used as slang for kilogram.\n\nYou might like to get your facts straight before you go calling people names.
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If it's a number like .750 or .999 it means the percent of gold.  .999 is the highest number used because there's no way to get all of the impurities out to call it 100%\n\nIf it's a number with a k, that stands for karat weight.  24k is basically 100% gold.  18k is 18/24 so it's equal to 75% gold or .750 (see example above).
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SmartcookIe was on to something.  It depends on where you live.  In Britain one billion is one million million.  In the United States one billion is one thousand million.
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It is 1000000000000000000000000000... (To be continued;) + 4
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I don't know where you're from, but in the United States "one thousand" is used a lot more prevalently than "ten hundred."  I have only heard "ten hundred" a hand full of times in my life.  I say "one thousand."  Since she is your wife she is going to win the argument anyways, so not much you can do!