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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dave1massey@cs.com
href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com">Dave</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 8, 2016 6:59 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=mdporter@dfn.com
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title=triumphs@autox.team.net
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [TR] New Alternator - Stag</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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size=4>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
</FONT><FONT size=4>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Context is everything.<BR><BR>BTW, how much is a
buttload? Two hogsheads. Look it up.<BR></FONT>
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Message-----<BR>From: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com><BR>To: triumphs
<triumphs@autox.team.net><BR>Sent: Thu, Sep 8, 2016 2:30 am<BR>Subject:
Re: [TR] New Alternator - Stag<BR><BR>On 9/7/2016 6:45 AM, Chad wrote:<BR>> K
is for 000 M is for 000 000<BR>><BR><BR>Umm, not exactly. In the UK and some
of the commonwealth countries, M <BR>is traditionally and colloquially used for
thousands, because it's <BR>derived from the Latin numeral for one thousand.
Kilo (or K) is the <BR>prefix typically used in more recent scientific notation,
taken from <BR>Greek (and initially adopted by the French circa early 19th
century as a <BR>means of standardization of measurement, on which the ISO
gram-meter <BR>system is based). It's also common in the UK to hear "thousand
<BR>million," rather than "billion," probably for the same reason--there <BR>was
no Latin equivalent for billion. In Latin numeracy, a million was <BR>the
largest denomination, and was represented by an 'M' with a bar over <BR>it, the
bar representing "times 1000."<BR><BR>That's roughly the etymology of it as I've
been able to gather over the <BR>years.<BR><BR><BR>Cheers.<BR><BR>--
<BR><BR><BR>Michael Porter<BR>Roswell, NM<BR><BR><BR>Never let anyone drive you
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