Originally Posted by Delta3MM

It's really the 1K name that is a misnomer - technically, a "K" is 1,000 (or 1024 to us techies). 100K is the more correct designation of someone who flies 100K miles per year, but I assume that the code that is used to designate levels in the computer is limited to just 2 characters, so the designation 1K is used, when in reality it is 100K (100,000).

If you had three characters it could be: .1M or four 0.1M. Either way doesn't look that great in print. So we're usually stuck with 1K when they mean 100K.

Billy