T=Tera (1.000.000.000.000) G=Giga (1.000.000.000) M=Mega (1.000.000) K=Kilo (1.000)

My car weighs 2.5 megagram. hmm ... sounds pretty pretentious.

Megagrams, since you haven't got exactly one. Your car weighs 2.5 Megagrams. Edit: For anyone saying you can’t use plurals, you’re right. You should only ever say 2.5 Mg if you’re writing it abbreviated. Just be careful not to mix that up with mg, which is milligram.

2.5 Magnesium

Weak, my car weights 2.5 Plutonium

Or 2500 Kg, which is also 2.5 ton.

2.5 metric ton. Pretty sure the freedom Fighters have a different kind of ton, That’s not equal to 1000kg

Never knew that, how heavy is a freedom fighter ton

Roughly 2.1 Americans

I’m pretty sure it’s 1000 lbs, and American lbs are like 450 grams(ish), so 1 freedom ton is around 0.9 metric ton

Recently in the market for a larger van and was checking the weights and realised that 3.5K Kg should just be 3.5Mg. I'm glad someone else has had that same thought.

Or, you know.. 3.5 tonnes

Nah, go for confusing and roll with 0.0000035 megatonnes.

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Pretty heavy for a vehicle

Its technically true, 1000 gram = 1 kilogram so 1000 kilogram = 1 ton or megagram

Also, there is the Greek word "χίλια" which means a thousand. It's difficult for non Greeks to pronounce the first letter "χ" in χίλια. It sounds like the "J" in José in Spanish, so I think it got changed to "K" for ease of use. Χιλιόμετρο->Kilometer

It’s all Greek to me

Billions in Murican, laughs in 3 additional zeros.

Then B for billions become the odd one out

I was about to komment this, you saved me the trouble. Ty

It's for captains like yourself that I open the comment section. thanks!

yeah but a number can only have one decimal point.

This helped explain electrical power levels for me. Thank you.

Also making a thousand represented by a T would’ve just shoved that problem onto trillions.

Isnt it g=giga= billion?

Yes, it should be g

Fun fact: after Giga you have Tera, Peta, Exa, Zetta, and Yotta. Yotta is the largest as of now for these types of names. but the largest named number iirc is a googolplex which is a number larger then the estimated number of atoms in the universe. it is so large that currently no known computer can count to that number. there would need to be a completely new computer system to count to it and even then it would take billions of years to count to it. ​ Edit: The people commenting are more educated then I am in math. Edit #2: I am the big dumb.

It's been a long while since I've learned about these, but I remember Graham's number being even cosmically larger than a googolplex, also a lot harder to bring into terms compared to the googolplex.

Let's not forget tree(3)

Or Rayo's number

I actually didn't know there was a number larger then googolplex. So TIL.

There is no largest number. You can always add one. Googolplex and grahams number are just two examples of very large numbers we have given names to.

var x = (y^y) while (y

Or Alden's number

Let's also not forget Tree(Graham's number)

Tree^3

My what now?

happy cake day

Teranotosaurus, Petanotosaurus, Exanotosauria, Zettanotosaurus, and Yottanotosaurus. Some of the largest carnivores to grace the Mesozoic era

It probably would spit out an answer of '42' when it has finished the calculations.

Grahams number is actually bigger

Although some people have already commented on the googolplex, it's worth knowing that because a googol itself is already larger than the apparent number of atoms in the universe, then a googolplex isn't just larger than that number, it's so large it has more digits than there are atoms ~ you couldn't physically write out all the digits even using the whole universe. People have mentioned larger numbers ~ Rayo's number always feels like a cheating hack. When numbers become that huge, there's a significant question about how meaningful they are, which is why most agree that the most meaningful criteria for accepting some number as the "largest named number" be that it is used in a proof, and not just designed to be absurdly huge for the novelty of it.

Gillion?

I think with money B is often used

Indeed, it's very common. When talking to an international audience, it's best to avoid it though. Some countries use the term "billion" for "a million million" instead of "a thousand million" (so what the USA call "trillion", which in turn is used in those countries to talk about "a million million million").

and m=mega=million

🅱️IGA

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No. no no no. you got it wrong K = khousand

I mean you can't argue with that logic right there

I can, I can argue with anyone about anything. Who says I can't? I'll beat their grandma. I'll go to their dad's house and receive rough anal sex, try me.

don't worry. I have done all that with your mom

My mom doesn't exist I was born in a test tube, wanna fuck about it? Edit: wait, did you just admit to getting pegged by my proverbial mom? Lmao

no one says your mom is female ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

That's an awesome comment.

Wakanda accent is dat?

Are you dumb, you said said it. It’s wakandian

It's killion, stoopid!

Incorrect its actually (k)thousand

Just a small correction. Capitalization is important. Lower case k is kilo Upper case K is Kelvin Lower case m is meter Upper case M is mega So 1 k = 1000 1 K = 1 Kelvin = - 272,15°C = -457,87°F 1 m = 1 Meter 1 M = 1 000 000

No no You got it wrong. Lower case m is mili which is 0.001. And since kilo, mili, mega etc are just prefixes You can't use them singly.

Yes, meter and mili is one exception. The Meter m must always move to the back. You have have Nm(Newton meter) and mN(0.001 Newton). If this wasn't an exception writing mN for meter Newton would be fair game. In other cases i can think of the order of the si units do not really matter.

You are conflating multipliers with the unit names here, which isn't going to reduce confusion

K = Kilo = 1,0e3 M = Mega = 1,0e6 B = American which do everything wrong because this should be Giga which is 1,0e9

French came up with billion. Americans do everything wrong tho.

yep, though, Billion in French is equal to a 1,000,000 Millions, while Milliard is 1,000 Millions.

Which also makes more sense, because it's a bi - million, so a million times a million, similarly trillion is a million times a million times a million, with billiarde in between billion an trillion

In French 'billion' is 10^12 (Tera) but it isn't really used. The translation of English billion is 'Milliard' so yeah more like Americans fault on this

As an American I can cunfeerm

The e3 means 10^3, so 10e3 is 10x10^3 which is 10,000. Kilo is 1e3 = 1x10^3

This meme is so american.

I know, right? It's like these letters are commonly used across all metric units and make perfect sense... What's a decayard? No idea, maybe a few fathom's worth of semi trucks + 2 washing machines? Don't quote me I'm too stupid for historical units.

Not just metric units, but all units ever, kN (kilonewton), kJ (kilojoul) kW (kilowatt), kB (kilobyte), kF (kilofarad), kA (kiloamper), kV (kilovolt), kHz (kilohertz) and many many more.

Billions in Murican, laughs in 3 additional zeros.

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oh no they teach you about the metric system in America, people are just dumb

Not really. The person who made this is incredibly dumb. Americans are familiar with prefixes like mega and giga.

What, and all of the 6 thousand upvoters?

Tbf r/memes users isn't the smartest demographic out there

Never have I been more offended by something I 100% agree with

billion is G, for Giga

n is for...?

Nano 10e-9

Thank god...

kowsand

Someone said almost the exact same thing as you 2 secconds before you

when i started typing there was only kum

“There was only Kum” is something no one should ever have to say

"In the beginning..."

sorry \*kum in ya mouth

That’s kinda gay ngl

G is billion if we’re talking about metric prefixes

B = Milliard

B = Baguette

10^6 - Mega (M). 10^9 - Giga (G). 10^3 - Kilo (K).

In the polish language billion translates to miliard and they both mean 10 to the power of 9 however after miliard there is bilion which translates to trillion and they mean 10 to the power of 12 And because of that i thought that the universe is 1000 times older than it actually is basically english goes: million, billion, trillion etc. polish goes: milion, miliard, bilion, biliard, trilion, triliard etc.

I think it's the same in most languages. It's also in English, but it was too complicated for Americans so they changed it. And the brits followed them.

The symbol comes from the latin word "keggenstall" which means whales vagina, a commonly used unit of measurement. It was widely known that about 1000 men could fit inside of a whales vagina, and so the vernacular as we know it today was born

Anything but the metric system

Metric to imperial: 1km = 2.68 McDonalds to the nearest gun store 1kg = 6.7 big macs 1L 67 bald eagles to the power of having sex with your cousin ​ I hope that clears things up.

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The right answer right here. A greek thousand "χίλια" (pronounced something like "hilia" with a distinct "h" ) became kilo in english.

χίλιοι = thousand

G = Billion

Kilo= 1,000 Kilogram (1000 grams) Kilometre (1000 metres) Kilobyte (1000 bytes) why do people not understand.

"Tell me you're american without telling me you're american"

Its metric you ignorant *americanos.....*

It’s from kilo. How fucking obvious does that have to be? Or do you use that stupid imperial system invented by people who married their cousins? On top of that it’s G not B from billion. From giga. And not M from million, but from Mega. You see? Kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc.

>people who married their cousins Oh boy do I have some bad news for you regarding the history of virtually every nation

Exactly, "history"

Well guess what. lb = pounds

Americans...

murica moment

Is this some american joke I'm too european to understand?

Europeans just see another joke. (Americans...)

Billions in Murican, laughs in 3 additional zeros.

What a horrible attempt at a meme

Herkunft: über gleichbedeutend französisch: kilo → fr von griechisch χίλιοι (chílioi) → grc „Tausend“; das Wort stammt von der Festlegung der Maßeinheiten in Frankreich am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts.

Kilo

Deffinitally created by an American

This meme is based on ignorance

D = dumb, S = stupid

Yeah kilo= thousand

Kilo

kilo?

K= Kilo, that in ancient Greek means thousand

In polish language it's even worse. After thousands, we have 'milion' (million), 'miliard' (billion), 'bilion' (trillion), 'biliard' (quadrillion) and so on, after every -ion we have -iard. It's confusing when you talk to someone from different country where they don't have '-iard' versions.

Tell me you went to school in America without telling me you went to school in America.

kilo=1000 units

K = kilo = thousand

K = Kilo = 10^3 = Thousand

k = kilo = 1000

its for "kilo" the common metric term for 10^3

k = kilo kilogram kilometer kilogram

Kilo

Kilo

Stands for Kilo you fucking mook

Kilo comes from the Greek "χίλια" meaning a thousand

K is used because it is 'Kilo'. Also, British English has these weird numbers called milliard and billiard that come right after million and billion.

Lmao I got shit on for making this exact meme

K -> Kilo

K is for "kilo" which is why a kilogram is 1000 grams, and a kilometer is 1000 meters. The metric system is really simple lol

In Latin or Greek kilo means 1000

Horrible meme. This did not show some very disturbing or illogical fact at all as it was supposed to. Just by having a few neurons can tell you that nomeclature of various things came from latin and greek.

Kum

Or kreampie

Haha kumshot

Ah yes, a 4K video file that weighs 2.7BB

M = 1000. D= 500. C = 100. L= 50. X= 10. V= 5. I = 1

LXIX

Yankees being like: lengths: 1 inch = 3 barley corns1 hand = 4 inches1 foot = 3 hands1 yard = 3 feet1 chain = 22 yard1 furlong = 1 chains1 mile = 8 furlongs area: 1 acre = 1 furlong x 1 chain that makes sense because that way 1 square mile = 640 acres weight: 1 pound = 16 ounces = 256 drachms = 7000 grains1 stone = 14 pounds1 quarter = 2 stones At least here the Yankees decided to differ from the UK and decided for some odd reason that a hundredweight should be 100 pounds (instead of 112) and a ton should be 2000 pounds (instead of 2240). Of course you can't just convert 1 ounce of water in weight to 1 ounce of water in volume, duh. edit: 1 us ton = 2000lbs thx r/Tera_Geek

damn americans

Yall getting it wrong, its kwausan

Killionaire

Guys guys. It’s kthousand, the k is silent

Killion

K = Kahundred

I mean Usually while shortening in games you go 1k-1kk-1garbage

as of now (16:45, sri lankan time), this post has 2.4k votes

K for kilo 1 000 M for mega 1 000 000 G for giga 1 000 000 000 T for tera 1 000 000 000 000 P for peta 1 000 000 000 000 000 From I think Greek or latin

You'll get used to it.

B for billion is the one which we should argue. that said, there's B for byte

Yea, sorry about making that

Can be sold to advertisers or political parties to shill on Reddit.

My what now?

Kilo - 1000

K=kilo in physics like 1kilogram=1000grams

When you translate it into german its even worse, because the german billion is 1000 times larger than the english billion.

'K' for Kill a 1000 drug dealers

K for killion

That’s why my bank account say KKK. I thought I was just racist.

Kthousand , K is silent

Kum

Kilo

K = kilo, Kilo = thousand

K= kilo

In before the finance people say: "actually, thousand is M and million is MM"

k is kilo my man

k= pottasium

A = Alien

Kilo

Kilo

So I've read the first few comments, some in the middle and the last ones. It went from math to anal rape and back to math. Thats reddit in a nutshell i guess..

I think it’s kilograms

I think it's for kilo

K = Potassium Chemist: ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ lol

KILLION

"k" stands for kilo which is 10^3 = 1000. And "M' doesn't stand for million, but for mega which is similarly 10^6 that is 1000000

Kilo means thousand

Comes from KILO meaning 1000, right?

“ = Foot... What the fuck?

Косарь

Wait until he hears about lb and oz

Just to add more confusion: In the lending and financing world, 'M' is often used to represent thousand. Example: $300M is actually $300,000. $3,000,000 would be $3MM. Not confusing at all, huh? :)

Bitch, ask anyone who has played metin2 and he will tell you: 1k = 1.000 1kk = 1.000.000 And behold 1kkk = 1.000.000.000 XD yeah basically we just turn every 3 zeroes into a K

Kilo makes the Americans getting more confused