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I just want to interject that "50K KM" was fun to parse out. I like the way two conventions collided here. 50Mm would have been correct, but confusing.50MM more so.

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Are you American? As a European, I did not even think twice about this.

Kilometers (km) is how we measure distance. 1000 km = 1k km, not 1Mm (nobody ever uses that), so it follows that 50000 km = 50k km.

To be fair, 'kk' is often used as an abbreviation for million in some countries.

Interesting - I hadn't heard that one.

I hope I wasn't being unfair, and I certainly didn't mean to criticise.

I sometimes see kk on the interwebs when writing the full numbers doesn't make sense ie too many zeroes or to avoid the accidental confusion between k and M.

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