Quote from: jbreher on January 11, 2014, 10:56:03 PM

Quote from: westkybitcoins on January 11, 2014, 08:36:50 PM

No one walks around talking about kilo-dollars ...

Nonsense. 'How much is that house, Mr. Realtor?' "Two-Hundred and Fifty K" 'Quarter-Mil? Cool'.

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or deci-dollars

True, although 'centi-dollars' is so common that we abbreviate it to 'cents'.

People are willing to talk "cents" and "kilos" and would likely do "decis" and "micros". It's when the prefixes stay attached to the base unit ("kilo-dollars") that people start changing it up.