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To: Alski who wrote (1276)	9/24/1998 4:21:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 5102

>>>I don't suppose there's any chance we could agree to use K for 1,000 and M for 1,000,000? <<< IF you see K assume correctly it means thousand even though in computerland we stupidly appropriated it from kilo (1000), when we meant 1024. Assume M or MM, either one, means a million, even though in some places in the world M indeed is taken to mean a thousand, and in some places even means ten thousand (transliteration of 'maaan', from Cantonese, or something like that.) For myself, I just don't find it that difficult to type a few more zeros so if this confusion persists I will do that. So: k=thousands ,000 = thousands m=millions mm=millions But, ONLY in the US and countries that are completely signed on to our way of thinking. In England, even the comma means something else. OK? OK. Chaz