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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by guiambros on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:50PM (#35032009)
What is G$?
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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by nick__m on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:39PM (#35032560)
1G$ = 1 000 000 000$
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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by bluescrn on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:57PM (#35032100)
1000 megabucks
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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by mvelbaum on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:32PM (#35032471)
1024
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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by PNWChris on Sunday March 05, 2023 @02:05PM (#35032783)
I think that’d be gibidollars (Gi$ or something like that?).

All these unusual units are kinda fun, could spice up a presentation or conversation to throw in without context.

It gives me that hacker having fun, tarsnap picodollar/byte-month pricing vibe.

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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by jprd on Sunday March 05, 2023 @05:07PM (#35034588)
It is the SI prefix for giga, and commonly used instead of B for "Billions" outside of the US when writing "Harvard's endowment fund is currently worth fifty-three billion US dollars".

53G$ == $53B USD

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