Democrats trying to unseat each other IV

[Derec]

Ok, I’m dumb: What is the G in $1G?

It stands for "giga", which means 10⁹ or (short scale) billion. Just like 'k' stands for "kilo" or thousand and 'M' stands for "mega" or million.

 

[Toni]

Ok, I’m dumb: What is the G in $1G?

It stands for "giga", which means 10⁹ or (short scale) billion. Just like 'k' stands for "kilo" or thousand and 'M' stands for "mega" or million.

That’s what I thought but it seems silly not to use $1B.

 

[bilby]

Ok, I’m dumb: What is the G in $1G?

1 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Prefixes

 

[bilby]

Ok, I’m dumb: What is the G in $1G?

It stands for "giga", which means 10⁹ or (short scale) billion. Just like 'k' stands for "kilo" or thousand and 'M' stands for "mega" or million.

That’s what I thought but it seems silly not to use $1B.

It seems silly not to use SI.

Everyone in the world does, except Liberia, Myanmar, and the USA.

B is Bel or Byte, depending on whether the context is acoustics or computing.

 

[Toni]

Ok, I’m dumb: What is the G in $1G?

1 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Prefixes

Why the fuck not say billion? Or B?

Never mind. It doesn’t matter.

I guessed that G was supposed to reference billion but honestly how absurd. No no no: I get it: Derec explained Abd I knew but wa ted it confirmed.

 

[bilby]

Why the fuck not say billion? Or B?

Because neither meets any standard. A US billion is one thousandth of a European billion.

 

[Toni]

Ok, I’m dumb: What is the G in $1G?

It stands for "giga", which means 10⁹ or (short scale) billion. Just like 'k' stands for "kilo" or thousand and 'M' stands for "mega" or million.

That’s what I thought but it seems silly not to use $1B.

It seems silly not to use SI.

Everyone in the world does, except Liberia, Myanmar, and the USA.

B is Bel or Byte, depending on whether the context is acoustics or computing.

G = 1000 in cop shows and gangster films. Or movies about drugs.

G or more conventionally, g = gram

 

[bilby]

Ok, I’m dumb: What is the G in $1G?

It stands for "giga", which means 10⁹ or (short scale) billion. Just like 'k' stands for "kilo" or thousand and 'M' stands for "mega" or million.

That’s what I thought but it seems silly not to use $1B.

It seems silly not to use SI.

Everyone in the world does, except Liberia, Myanmar, and the USA.

B is Bel or Byte, depending on whether the context is acoustics or computing.

G = 1000 in cop shows and gangster films. Or movies about drugs.

Sure. That's why obsolete systems should be avoided; They are confusing. G in that context is an abbreviation for "grand".

G or more conventionally, g = gram

NO.

G ≠ g, they are totally different symbols.

g = gram. G = 10⁹.

G is also used for the Universal Gravitational Constant, 6.6743×10^-11m³ kg^-1s^-2

g is used for the acceleration due to gravity, which varies but is typically around 9.81m.s^-2 at sea level.

Both relate to gravity, but are very different things.

Using G for gram (mass) is ALWAYS wrong.

 

[Toni]

Ok, I’m dumb: What is the G in $1G?

It stands for "giga", which means 10⁹ or (short scale) billion. Just like 'k' stands for "kilo" or thousand and 'M' stands for "mega" or million.

That’s what I thought but it seems silly not to use $1B.

It seems silly not to use SI.

Everyone in the world does, except Liberia, Myanmar, and the USA.

B is Bel or Byte, depending on whether the context is acoustics or computing.

G = 1000 in cop shows and gangster films. Or movies about drugs.

Sure. That's why obsolete systems should be avoided; They are confusing. G in that context is an abbreviation for "grand".

G or more conventionally, g = gram

NO.

G ≠ g, they are totally different symbols.

g = gram. G = 10⁹.

G is also used for the Universal Gravitational Constant, 6.6743×10^-11m³ kg^-1s^-2

g is used for the acceleration due to gravity, which varies but is typically around 9.81m.s^-2 at sea level.

Both relate to gravity, but are very different things.

Using G for gram (mass) is ALWAYS wrong.

So is using G for billion

 

[Derec]

So is using G for billion

No, it's not. It's the standard prefix for 10⁹, whether it's called a "billion" or a "milliard" in your neck of the woods.

 Long and short scales

 

[Toni]

So is using G for billion

No, it's not. It's the standard prefix for 10⁹, whether it's called a "billion" or a "milliard" in your neck of the woods.

 Long and short scales

Eh, until I saw it here, I’ve never seen it.

 

[Derec]

Eh, until I saw it here, I’ve never seen it.

 

[bilby]

So is using G for billion

No, it's not. It's the standard prefix for 10⁹, whether it's called a "billion" or a "milliard" in your neck of the woods.

 Long and short scales

Eh, until I saw it here, I’ve never seen it.

That speaks volumes about the woeful state of the education system in the US.

They were probably too busy making you memorise a bazillion* different conversion factors for all your weird units.








* An SI Bazillion is roughly equal to 1.3281 Imperial Bazillions, or 1.66 US Bazillions

 

[TV and credit cards]

Monetary abbreviations in financial writings are M, B, and T. In Europe I believe they’ll use mn, bn, and tn.

 

[Toni]

So is using G for billion

No, it's not. It's the standard prefix for 10⁹, whether it's called a "billion" or a "milliard" in your neck of the woods.

 Long and short scales

Eh, until I saw it here, I’ve never seen it.

That speaks volumes about the woeful state of the education system in the US.

They were probably too busy making you memorise a bazillion* different conversion factors for all your weird units.








* An SI Bazillion is roughly equal to 1.3281 Imperial Bazillions, or 1.66 US

Abbreviation for Thousands, Millions, Billions, & Trillion?

What is the correct abbreviation for thousands, millions, billions and trillions in a financial context? From what I have read online "In metric, you'd use M (mega) for million, G

www.wallstreetoasis.com

Thousand, Million, Billion, Trillion What's The Shorthand Or Abbreviation?​

Around WSO there seems to be a general consensus for what is considered the "correct" abbreviations:

• K for Thousands
• MM or M for Millions
• B, Bn, Bil for Billions
• T or Tn for Trillion

Also: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Abbreviations/faq0094.html

And

MM (Millions)

Learn what MM (millions) means in finance, why it’s used in financial statements, and how it simplifies large numbers like revenue and profit figures.

corporatefinanceinstitute.com

 

[Toni]

Eh, until I saw it here, I’ve never seen it.

In my experience, Giga is used as a prefix indicating billion for many things but never for dollars.

Convention according to AI ( disgusting, I know)
K = thousand
M = million
B = billion
T= trillion

Because AI is often incorrect, I checked multiple style manuals which concurred, one providing B as preferred and specifically mentioning G is slang for thousand so to be avoided.

My guess was that you meant billion but I could not find any such reference with regards to dollars. So I asked.

In my experience, asking for clarification was not cause for demeaning someone.

But you and bilby do you.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So is using G for billion

No, it's not. It's the standard prefix for 10⁹, whether it's called a "billion" or a "milliard" in your neck of the woods.

 Long and short scales

Eh, until I saw it here, I’ve never seen it.

Actually, you probably have... as in Gigabytes (billion bytes), though that would GB... though this looks late to the game.

Granted, in the US, a "G" is (was) more commonly 1,000 as in "grand".

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Eh, until I saw it here, I’ve never seen it.

Actually that was "Jigawatts". I actually had no idea for decades that they meant gigawatts. They fixed it in the musical.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Ok, I’m dumb: What is the G in $1G?

1 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Prefixes

I'm curious, is the Australian national debt approaching $1 petabucks?

 

[Toni]

So is using G for billion

No, it's not. It's the standard prefix for 10⁹, whether it's called a "billion" or a "milliard" in your neck of the woods.

 Long and short scales

Eh, until I saw it here, I’ve never seen it.

Actually, you probably have... as in Gigabytes (billion bytes), though that would GB... though this looks late to the game.

Granted, in the US, a "G" is (was) more commonly 1,000 as in "grand".

Yes yes yes: I studied lots of science and worked professionally in science.


I was specifically referring to the use of the abbreviation G with respect to currency.

In the US and I assume at least some other countries, in slang terms with respect to dollars, G is slang for grand which is slang for thousand.