Is there an official name for the kerbal currency?

[Temstar]

So we know the kerbal currency has the symbol √, is there any canonic info on how this monetary unit should be pronounced?

Like say if a kerbal were to sign a cheque to buy a house, you would expect him to write "four hundred and twenty five thousand roots"  on the cheque?

[blowfish]

I think they're just called funds

[AbacusWizard]

I call them spacebucks, same as in Galaxy Trucker and Spaceballs.

 

(I have long believed that Galaxy Trucker is just the distant future of Kerbalkind anyway. Small cartoony astronauts? Check. Cobling spaceships together out of spare parts? Check. Hilarious explosions when things go wrong? Check!)

[FyunchClick]

I kinda like k'ching. That or kerbucks.

[peachoftree]

Bitcoin.  Only the finest in unstable currency would be fitting for the kerbals 

[One-Way Films]

I call it kurrency from time to time

[DuoDex]

I think the idea was to call it "kurrency" or "kash", but someone had had enough of the "K" names. So they gave it a symbol and called it a day.

[MaxwellsDemon]

I think of them as "kerbits."

[adsii1970]

19 minutes ago, MaxwellsDemon said:

I think of them as "kerbits."

Wow, that's close to what I call them, which is "Kerbytes"

[Rocket In My Pocket]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%88%9A

Usage notes

This is also called the "radical sign".

I say we call them Radicals! Lol.

Edited December 11, 2015 by Rocket In My Pocket

[Norpo]

On the topic of unofficial names, I've also heard them called spesos (i.e space pesos, pesos are a mexican currency), "kerbucks", and simply, of course, "money"

But yeah, officially they're called Funds.

[GluttonyReaper]

I'm personally quite fond of "roots", but that's just me.

[problemecium]

^ I too have heard "roots" having a claim to being the official name, although I like just sticking with "funds" as it sounds a bit less silly.

[More Boosters]

That must be a really luxurious house as you can build a rocket for much less. I call them Roots.

[Curveball Anders]

I still go with "Kesos"

 

[OhioBob]

I usually just call them funds, but sometimes for fun I call them "krubles".

[NecroBones]

From what we heard a while back, they were considering calling it "roots", but found that there's a slang connotation to that in some places, so they switched to "funds".

[monophonic]

4 hours ago, adsii1970 said:

Wow, that's close to what I call them, which is "Kerbytes"

So, is there eight kerbits to a kerbyte?

3 hours ago, Rocket In My Pocket said:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%88%9A

Usage notes

This is also called the "radical sign".

I say we call them Radicals! Lol.

Have you noticed there is an extra line in the funds symbol compared to the root sign? It is actually more of a monogram of the letters V and F. Could stand for virtual funds, although currecy symbols as often don't have a connection to the name as they do.

[Rocket In My Pocket]

1 minute ago, monophonic said:

So, is there eight kerbits to a kerbyte?

Have you noticed there is an extra line in the funds symbol compared to the root sign? It is actually more of a monogram of the letters V and F. Could stand for virtual funds, although currecy symbols as often don't have a connection to the name as they do.

Very interesting! Never noticed that, I wonder what else V F might stand for? Any one have any ideas?

[pasukaru76]

Vanishing Funds. 

[pandaman]

Yeah.  I'm sure Funds is the 'official' name, though I think 'Roots' would be quite fitting, with money being the 'root of all evil'.

[Guest]

Give me all of your funds!!!!

[The Optimist]

Buds 

 

heh

[Alshain]

I call them Kredits or Kerbucks.

[Mister Dilsby]

Kerbucks. It just sounds right. Also, kercents.