Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/07/06 23:05

In article <1136406482.194805.83500@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
NYC XYZ <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> In the industrial world "M" is one million. It is the abbreviation
>> for Mega, not mille. mill is a small m and stands for one thousandth.
>> k stands for kilo and is one thousand.
>

>Sure, in the computer world as well (generally "MB," though).

>Mille is Latin for a thousand. This is what printers go by.

And in the computer world the differences between M and m and B and
b are quite large. 100mb is drastically smaller than 100MB - IOW
100 milli-bits. The only inconsistancy is k for 1000 and K for
1024. [or do I have those two reversed?]

Bill


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