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On 03.05.2014 02:54, Ben Davenport wrote:
> No one quotes amounts as 63 k$ or 3 M$. The accepted standard at 
> least in the US is <currency-symbol><amount><modifier>, i.e. $63k 
> or $3M.

As you said, that's in the US, and I strongly suspect the sole reason
is that in the US the currency symbol is written in front of the
amount. I often pronounce $10k as ten kilodollar, using it exactly
like a SI-prefix.

The much better argument against SI prefixes is that the prefixes for
values less than 1 tend to be much less well known: Most people know
that kilo means 1000, many know that mega means 1,000,000, but few
know that micro means 0.0000001, and those that do tend to confuse
micro and nano.

Jannis
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