Personally I'm still waiting for another 48 years until the Y2K bug bites!
Aside from its real meaning as degrees Kelvin, capital K was first used by the
computer guys as a de-facto agreed unit for binary thousand (1024) as in Kbytes.
Sloppiness by the financial community led to its use there for thousands of
dollars, etc. and ignorance by the media has resulted in its general use.
Together with the shorthand loved by Americans this has led to Y2K!
However of course the official unit for 1000 has always been lower case k, as in
km, kHz, etc.
Happy Y2k ! (I won't see Y2K!)
Roger
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