What does “kviews” mean? [duplicate]

Question

As in the image shown, some questions have a certain number of kviews whereas others have N views.

Why? What is "kviews"?

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Also, if you click on the question, you see the full number of views on the right. — slhck, Mar 19 '12 at 15:33
Also also, if you hover your mouse cursor over the number, the title attribute (tooltip) displays the count in views. :) — iglvzx, Mar 19 '12 at 21:48

Sathyajith Bhat · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-19 13:08:26Z

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kviews = kiloviews == 1000 views

The questions with nk views have nx1000 views.

answered Mar 19 '12 at 13:08

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also Mviews would be 1000000 views and mviews would be 0.001 views. Clic for an overview of metric prefixes. – Tim Sep 17 '12 at 11:33

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