More confusion......

[Bob Wright]

A recent spot on TV advertised a casino where one could win $5 G. Now Nita and I were well familiar with "G" representing thousand from George Raft who demanded 10 G protection money.

So now, one thousand may be represented by "G" while the older proper term was "M" from the Roman numeral. And baby boomers have adopted "K" for the thousand quantity. Examples:

"Pistol primers @ $30 M"

"Gamblers could win $5 G"

"This car is priced over $55 K"



Bob Wright

 

[Kevin]

And in some gangster movies, thousand is “large.” For example if the interest on a loan from a loan shark is $3,000. In the movie they might say: “The juice is 3 large.”

I don’t know how common it is in real life though. I’ve not seen the “M” like you point out. But have seen the “K” representing thousand.

 

[Bull Barrel]

A kilogram is 1000 cc's of water so that is where the K comes from.

 

[gramps]

“K” meaning 1,000 is also an electrical term. Resistors are marked 50K etc to mean 50,000 ohms resistance etc.
gramps

 

[Jeepnik]

I wonder if anyone in the US used K as a substitute for 1000 before the government decided to indoctrinate the citizenry into the metric system?

That has resulted in a mess where, vehicles for instance, have standard and metric fasteners. Not to mention newer ones like Torx.

 

[Bull Barrel]

“K” meaning 1,000 is also an electrical term. Resistors are marked 50K etc to mean 50,000 ohms resistance etc.
gramps

Ohms is the electrical term. The K is still derived from the volume in cc's, being 1000.

 

[Fox Mike]

Kelly Bundy cut out a bunch of "K"s once to buy a car.

 

[coach]

We can ditch any and all Roman numerals eg. M forever as far as I’m concerned.
G was just slang for the slang Grand for meaning a thousand dollars. Back when a thousand dollars really meant something.
K is an abbreviation for kilo which derived from the metric system meaning a thousand which most of the world uses. Which is fine with me. Although I miss when a 5 liter engine was a 307 cu. in. small block. It doesn’t bother me at all to buy a 750 ml bottle of bourbon instead of a fifth.

 

[Fox Mike]

We can ditch any and all Roman numerals eg.

Oh perish the very thought. How would the NFL ever figure out how to count Super Bowls? :roll: :roll:

 

[Tensaw]

To add to the confusion. K in decimal is 1000, K in binary is 1024 (2^10).

 

[Bob Wright]

In outlines, Roman numerals take precedence over Arabic numerals, capital letters over lower case.

Bob Wright

 

[WMB30]

and in Ruger land K is stainless

Bill

 

[wwb]

"k" is the abbreviation for "kilo", which means 1,000.
1,000 meters is a kilometer (about 0.6 miles)
1,000 watts is a kilowatt
1,000 grams is a kilogram (about 2.2 pounds)
and so forth....