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Government to temporarly scrap stamp duty up to £250k?

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  • ModernSlave
    ModernSlave Posts: 221 Forumite
    edited 24 March 2010 at 3:42PM
    guinness_cat wrote: »
    I thought that £1K = £1000.

    Why would you think not - unless we're talking about bytes?

    Yes, please explain why £50,000 is different from 50k? I've been using k as an abbrieviation for 1000 and I didn't think I was particularly mathmatically illiterate (but thanks for suggesting it).
  • krajab
    krajab Posts: 15 Forumite
    James_N wrote: »
    Exactly £50K = £51,200. And we are talking pounds. It's an error often made.

    Sorry, that's absolutely wrong. £50k = £50,000.

    Computer people only use 1024 because they deal in base 2, which we obviously don't.
  • James_N
    James_N Posts: 1,090 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    I don't quite know what to say. The dissertation that K = 1000 in numbers (as opposed to measurement) is erroneous, but wrong. Just because you've been getting it wrong for some time doesn't make it right.

    If you want a shorthand, use "thou".
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  • James_N
    James_N Posts: 1,090 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    Cannon_Fodder wrote: »
    http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/budget2010/sdlt.htm

    http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/budget2010/sdlt-qa-tech-1545.pdf

    Good ref - now for detailed reading
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  • krajab
    krajab Posts: 15 Forumite
    James_N wrote: »
    I don't quite know what to say. The dissertation that K = 1000 in numbers (as opposed to measurement) is erroneous, but wrong. Just because you've been getting it wrong for some time doesn't make it right.

    If you want a shorthand, use "thou".

    SI would disagree with you (ok technically it should be lower-case but upper-case is acceptable).

    "thou" :D

    And your reasoning that £1K=£1024? Looking forward to your explanation for that one. Keep digging...
  • guinness_cat_2
    guinness_cat_2 Posts: 4 Newbie
    Surely Measurment of money would be the same the the measurment of anything else - as with Km Kg etc...

    Wouldn't use thou as this -for me anyway would be more likely to meen 1/1000 (as in of an inch)
  • James_N
    James_N Posts: 1,090 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    krajab wrote: »
    SI would disagree with you (ok technically it should be lower-case but upper-case is acceptable).

    "thou" :D

    And your reasoning that £1K=£1024? Looking forward to your explanation for that one. Keep digging...

    I don't need to "dig" for a fact. If you don't understand that's your lookout.
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  • James_N
    James_N Posts: 1,090 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    How is the £250,000 for FTB to be policed?
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  • krajab
    krajab Posts: 15 Forumite
    James_N wrote: »
    I don't need to "dig" for a fact. If you don't understand that's your lookout.

    I understand that you're wrong. This is fun.
  • James_N
    James_N Posts: 1,090 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    Eton_Rifle wrote: »
    I've probably been in IT for a lot longer than you have (decades)

    But you haven't learned not to make unsubstantiated assumptions, it seems.

    Many people think that it's is ok for the possessive, and that professional has two "f"s or that acomodation or acommodation is ok. Doesn't make them right.
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