money? what does the "K" really mean?

[yo ziza]

i've been on gaia for a while and i've seen this 20k thing alot but i never knew what i ment.
my friend is low on gold so she's drawin me two avi's for 20k. but i have no idea how much that is...i said i'd just give her 10,000 gold but she said that's way to much....but i was thinking that it was way to low...
she's been on here way longer than me so i'm confused
so what does the k really mean?
and how much is 20K?
am i confused or is she?  

[Avzel]

K comes from Kilo, which is the prefix used in the metric system to mean a thousand. It is now used as shorthand in money - I've heard it used for American dollars as well. Twenty years or so ago, they might have said "Twenty grand" to mean twenty thousand, and abbreviate it 20g.

But, the colloquial terms have shifted, so 20k = 20,000
and in Gaia, the g stands for gold, so 20g is only twenty.

So if your friend will work for 20k but thinks that 10k is too much, she is the confused one. wink  

[MaetharanelTeleunya]

My thoughts exactly. Why doint you ask her what she means by 20k, and if she is confused, then show her this thread.  

[yo ziza]

thanks.....she said she ment 2.5k
>.<
i love my jess though so i'll pay whatever  

[Kuuhaku-shou]

Think of the "K" as "thousand" after the number preceding it. For example; when I see 15K I would think "fifteen thousand gold" or when I see 100K I would think "one hundred thousand gold." It's not faulty, and that's exactly what it means on Gaia. It's shorthand.

 

[Avzel]

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