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[quote=Anonymous]It's an age thing. Before the advent of metric education in schools in the 1970s, G always meant 1000, but especially when came to money, and it was usually spelled out. The origin is much older though. It stood for "a grand sum of money." Late in life, "Grand" got abbreviated to "G,". But over the last 30 years it has almost been entirely replaced by "K."[/quote]
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