In the old days "M" DID stand for "000", but maybe in the very early 70's it
got standardized to K for "kilo"
This is one of the changes that cause a break in the rules that the letter for
the power of 10 is the same and the capitalization indicated the sign of the
exponent, eg 10 to the third power would be a capital letter and 10 to the
negative third power would the the same letter in lower case.
Now the letters are determined by the Greek ( or is it Latin?) designation:
kilo,mega, giga, micro, nano, etc and sometimes to keep it clear, you also have
to use the Greek letter, such as for "micro".
-Tony
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> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 12:50:36 -0700
> From: "Lee&John Howard" <leejohn7@gmail.com>
> To: Brad Kahler <bkahler1@gmail.com>
> Cc: triumph list list <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [TR] New Alternator - Stag
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> Doesn't M stand for 000?
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