Why do we abbreviate thousands and use the letter K?
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cloggy said:
Actually thousands were never abbriviated with K untill the seventies.
It came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
Well, formally when France adopted the metric system in 1795, so a bit before then.It came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
cloggy said:
Actually thousands were never abbriviated with K untill the seventies.
It came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
Could be from when the metric system was starting to be taught in schools in the 70'sIt came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
Ozone said:
cloggy said:
Actually thousands were never abbriviated with K untill the seventies.
It came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
Could be from when the metric system was starting to be taught in schools in the 70'sIt came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
HRG said:
Ozone said:
cloggy said:
Actually thousands were never abbriviated with K untill the seventies.
It came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
Could be from when the metric system was starting to be taught in schools in the 70'sIt came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
HRG said:
Ozone said:
cloggy said:
Actually thousands were never abbriviated with K untill the seventies.
It came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
Could be from when the metric system was starting to be taught in schools in the 70'sIt came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
Ozone said:
HRG said:
Ozone said:
cloggy said:
Actually thousands were never abbriviated with K untill the seventies.
It came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
Could be from when the metric system was starting to be taught in schools in the 70'sIt came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
Ozone said:
cloggy said:
Actually thousands were never abbriviated with K untill the seventies.
It came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
Could be from when the metric system was starting to be taught in schools in the 70'sIt came from the IT world where one thousand bytes (1024 actually) was abbriviated to one K (One Kilo Byte), this then transgressed into the main stream.
Funny enough people still use the terms 'ons or ounce' when bying a 100 grams of food or (pond or pound) when bying 500 grams of food stuff.
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