http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/06/20/thieves-steal-100g-apple-products-through-best-buy-roof.html
I stumbled across this article on Facebook and was confused by the headline.
Thieves steal $100G of Apple products through Best Buy roof
It's not the first time a group of people have rappelled from a hole cut in the roof of a Best Buy, so I wasn't too shocked by it. What I struggled over was the designation for what was stolen. "$100G." I read the article and see that they used a G to represent 1000. $100,000 was stolen.
I did an Internet search using the popular online search engine Google and it appears many publications have used G to represent 1000 over the years, not just FoxNews, and it's apparently just to represent "grand" meaning $1000. So why use abbreviated American slang to replace something that's been used for a few millennia by the entire world? Particularly if you're still going to put a $ in front of it - It's like saying "One hundred grand dollars" which is just dumb.
I stumbled across this article on Facebook and was confused by the headline.
Thieves steal $100G of Apple products through Best Buy roof
It's not the first time a group of people have rappelled from a hole cut in the roof of a Best Buy, so I wasn't too shocked by it. What I struggled over was the designation for what was stolen. "$100G." I read the article and see that they used a G to represent 1000. $100,000 was stolen.
I did an Internet search using the popular online search engine Google and it appears many publications have used G to represent 1000 over the years, not just FoxNews, and it's apparently just to represent "grand" meaning $1000. So why use abbreviated American slang to replace something that's been used for a few millennia by the entire world? Particularly if you're still going to put a $ in front of it - It's like saying "One hundred grand dollars" which is just dumb.
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