Watch out folks
M in Latin is 1,000 as in Millennium - no small m.
M in Greek (Silicontalk) is 1,000,000 as in "mega"
K or k is French & Greek for 1,000 -
In engineering K is 1,000, M is 1,000,000 and mighty G is 1,000M. Lower
case is sometimes used.
At 08:12 AM 8/1/02 -0700, Dan DiBiase wrote:
>...and I always thought 'k' (upper or lower case) represented an increment
>of 1,000.....
>
>
>--- Chuck Renner <crenner@dynalivery.com> wrote:
> > > M = 1,000
> > > m = 1,000,000
> >
> > Don't know who uses a little m to represent one million. In the oil and
> > gas
> > industry, M is 1,000, and MM is 1,000,000.
>
>
>=====
>Dan DiBiase
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Barrie
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