[TR] New Alternator - Stag

[Lee&John Howard]

So there you have it. I am from the "old days" sand guess I am still living
in them. But I had no idea of the source of the "M's". Thank you for the
info!
John

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:49 AM, Anthony Rhodes <spamiam at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my 1837 Babbage Analytical Engine
>
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 12:50:36 -0700
> > From: "Lee&John Howard" <leejohn7 at gmail.com>
> > To: Brad Kahler <bkahler1 at gmail.com>
> > Cc: triumph list list <triumphs at autox.team.net>
> > Subject: Re: [TR] New Alternator - Stag
> >
> >
> > Doesn't M stand for 000?
>
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