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What does mean K here? She has 11k tweets. What does mean K? I know it's 11000, but still can't understand why it is K?
Jan 5, 2018 8:30 PM
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'K' is short for 1,000. It comes from 'kilo'.
January 5, 2018
K is the scientific abbreviation for "1,000" from Kilo, and the military slang "Klik" meaning a kilometer. In the super-short text message world, "k" is much shorter than "1,000," so it is now a common abbreviation. ;-)
January 5, 2018
It stands for "kilo". It is a metric prefix to indicate a multiple. Look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
January 5, 2018
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