[geeks] Anybody can borrow me $10k? hehe....

[Bjorn Ramqvist]

Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
>         "Can anybody lend me $10K?"
> 
> I also capitalized the "K" in "$10K" because I was always taught that
> the American way of expressing metric numbers requires you to
> capitalize the first letter if you are representing a multiple of the
> base unit that is larger than the base unit, and small letters for
> multiples that represent fractions of the base unit.
> 
> So if we're talking about meters, for example, you would use "cm" for
> "centimeters" but "Km" (or "KM") for "kilometers".  Because, while not
> often used in common parlance, there is a big difference between "dm"
> and "Dm".

That's like using "mb" instead of "MB" when talking datasizes.
Milli-bits vs Megabytes... 1/1000th of a bit vs 1000000 bytes.
:-)

/Bjorn