I was joking about mega conventionally meaning a million of something [1]. I agree it's certainly "mega" in the informal/Aussie sense.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

Nobody (in English at least) uses SI prefixes for currency though?

£1M (happens to have the same shorthand, but) is never called 'a megapound'.

I sometimes say gigadollars (or gigabucks) when i want my [captive] audience to understand i am talking about an unfathomably large amount of money. I use SI prefixes a lot because i grew up with both computers and simple circuit-building, and still use computers and now radio.

I also prefer to see $1mm to $1M, and i'm not even French!

Someone does :)

HN discussion (2009): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=921524

https://tarsnap.com

> Tarsnap uses a prepaid model based on actual usage:

> Storage: 250 picodollars / byte-month of encoded data ($0.25 / GB-month)

> Bandwidth: 250 picodollars / byte of encoded data ($0.25 / GB)

Y'know.. that direction actually makes a lot of sense! (Just since we don't already have common words for those I suppose.) Do find it annoying sometimes when something's specified as 0.0000025 $currencies per hour or whatever.

Megapound sounds like something one of Eric Idle's Monty Python characters would have said. But back then it would have only been possessed by the guy who paid Lennon and McCartney.