Thousand to Score (k to score)
1 thousand equals 50 score exactly.
How to convert thousand to score
To convert thousand to score, multiply the number of thousand by 50. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply score by 0.02.
score = thousand × 50
Example: 10 thousand = 500 score.
Large-number names differ around the world: this site uses the short scale (billion = 10⁹) by default, and lists the long-scale billion separately.
About these units
Thousand (k)
One thousand (10³).
Thousand traces back through Middle English thousend to Old English þūsend and a Proto-Germanic form, and it has close relatives across the Germanic languages: German tausend, Dutch duizend, Swedish tusen, and Icelandic þúsund. Cognates also appear in Slavic and Baltic languages, among them Polish tysiąc and Lithuanian tūkstantis. Learned English vocabulary adds chiliad, a collective for a thousand, and millennium.
Its Roman numeral is M, and its scientific shorthand is the SI prefix kilo-, standing for 10³. The word has not always meant 1,000. In Old Norse counting, which grouped numbers in twelves of tens, a thousand meant 1,200. At ordinary scales, a thousand seconds is about 16.7 minutes, and a thousand days is about 2.7 years.
1 thousand = 1,000 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wiktionary: thousand; Wikipedia: Long hundred; BIPM SI Brochure, 9th edition (2019)
Score (score)
Twenty items. Seen in 'threescore years and ten' and 'four score and seven years ago'.
Score is a counting word for twenty, and it likely began as a notch. The Old Norse skor meant a notch or tally cut into a stick, and every twentieth mark was made larger, so the word came to mean twenty itself. English often pairs it with a number, as in threescore or fourscore. People also use scores loosely for a large, unspecified number.
Two famous passages keep the unit visible. In Psalm 90:10 of the King James Bible, the days of our years are threescore years and ten, which is 70, or fourscore, which is 80, if strength allows. And on November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln opened the Gettysburg Address with four score and seven years ago, meaning 87 years, which counts back to 1776 and the Declaration of Independence. A score of years is simply two decades.
1 score = 20 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Score (number); King James Bible, Psalm 90:10 (BibleHub); Wikipedia: Gettysburg Address
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