What do we call √?

[lazaruslong]

What name is considered canon for the Kerbal unit of currency? The √ sign indicates possible calling them roots, the game just says funds. One guy said Kerbucks. Kerbols (like obols) sounded nice, but that is the name of the sun.

What is the official name, if any. Either suggest fun alternatives or ideas for the name of the Kerbal unit of currency.

[vexx32]

The official name is "Funds".

I personally like "Roots", though.

[Whirligig Girl]

Funds. Definitely Funds. Calling it anything else is definitely as bad as cheating and calling it a huge achievement.

[Brotoro]

"Funds" is a radical name I would root for.

[Renegrade]

I call 'em "funds" in kinda official, serious contexts, but my own personal name for them is "space bucks" .. as in from Spaceballs.

"A million space bucks??"

(the space in between 'space' and 'bucks' is optional)

[Shalkka]

You could also call them "ticks". You know there is a huge pile of papers with a lot of boxes before you get to play with the toys. Space is also the thing that makes the kerbals tick.

[Rolanvorxariat]

"Funds" is a radical name I would root for.

That is genius, bro.

brotoro +rep

[Starwhip]

Funds.

That is all.

[iFlyAllTheTime]

I personally like "funds". Although I found someone referring to them as kredits or kurrency.

[cantab]

I think they should be called kuid, but I usually use funds.

Incidentally, I realised a while ago that the symbol isn't meant to be a square root sign. It's a graph, as might show money changing over time.

[r4pt0r]

We talking about snacks in this thread?

[Tex]

I go standard, and just call them Kredits.

[Bill Phil]

There's already a thread for this!

They're called funds, but you can call them anything, as long as you distinguish that they're the same thing as funds.

[Alshain]

I call them Kerbucks. I don't care what the "official" name is.

[Scoundrel]

K-monits (or kmonits, from Kerbal MONetary unITs) when I'm feeling scifi-ish, otherwise I just call them funds like everyone else.

[katateochi]

"Funds" is a radical name I would root for.

Well played!

I think they should be called kuid, but I usually use funds.

As a Brit "kuid" sits nicely with me, nice 1 gov! I wonder if non-brits will get that?

Incidentally, I realised a while ago that the symbol isn't meant to be a square root sign. It's a graph, as might show money changing over time.

oh, really! TIL! I always thought it was a sqrt sign.

[PB666]

I call 'em "funds" in kinda official, serious contexts, but my own personal name for them is "space bucks" .. as in from Spaceballs.

"A million space bucks??"

(the space in between 'space' and 'bucks' is optional)

Kerdollars K$ (most keyboards don't have the root symbol without a fetch)

[vitekc45c]

What about Kubits?

[Axelord FTW]

I call 'em Kosh.

and all that, but with a Kerbal flavor.

[pandaman]

AFAIK it's officially funds. But as it looks like a square root sign I thought it should be roots too, money is the 'Root of all Evil' after all

[Pi_]

We call it a clear indication that multiple universes exist; and that in some other universe Squad continued with the 'K' theme when it named the kurrency.

[John FX]

I call the symbol `root` and the currency `funds`

[Levelord]

I call them Koupons or Krubels

[Janos1986]

I still go for Kredits, even if I call them Funds when talking about them in the forum.

[Hrv123]

I heard someone streaming called it spasos. Kerbals use Spasos, its perfectly logical.