[TR] New Alternator - Stag

[dave n]

http://factually.gizmodo.com/butt-is-an-actual-unit-of-measurement-1622427091

the man speaks the truth

From: Dave 
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 6:59 AM
To: mdporter at dfn.com ; triumphs at autox.team.net 
Subject: Re: [TR] New Alternator - Stag

Indeed.  Many years ago when I was working in HVAC I was trying to calculate air flow temperature changes based on a coil rated at some value (eg: 22 MBTU/Hr) and my calculations kept coming out way out of the realm of reality.  By a factor of 1000.  Then I realized that the "M" stood for Mille (1000 in Latin).  Remember the Mille Miglia is a race of 1000 miles, not 1,000,000 miles.  I think that by the end of a million mile race all the spectators will have gone home.

So when does "M" mean 1,000 and when does it mean 1,000,000?  The answer to that is the same as it is to most of life's questions: "It depends."  For example, how big is a barrel?  Answer: It depends.  A barrel of beer is 31 gallons.  In the US.  In Brittan it is 43 gallons (US).  But most fluid barrels are half a hogshead (31.5 US gallons).  And a barrel of oil is 42 US gallons.

Context is everything.

BTW, how much is a buttload?  Two hogsheads.  Look it up.



Dave Massey




-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Porter <mdporter at dfn.com>
To: triumphs <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thu, Sep 8, 2016 2:30 am
Subject: Re: [TR] New Alternator - Stag

On 9/7/2016 6:45 AM, Chad wrote:
> K is for 000 M is for 000 000
>

Umm, not exactly. In the UK and some of the commonwealth countries, M 
is traditionally and colloquially used for thousands, because it's 
derived from the Latin numeral for one thousand. Kilo (or K) is the 
prefix typically used in more recent scientific notation, taken from 
Greek (and initially adopted by the French circa early 19th century as a 
means of standardization of measurement, on which the ISO gram-meter 
system is based). It's also common in the UK to hear "thousand 
million," rather than "billion," probably for the same reason--there 
was no Latin equivalent for billion. In Latin numeracy, a million was 
the largest denomination, and was represented by an 'M' with a bar over 
it, the bar representing "times 1000."

That's roughly the etymology of it as I've been able to gather over the 
years.


Cheers.

-- 


Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....



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