Roger, way back in the days of the caveman, 1M ohms = 1000 ohms.  Guess
going metric changed everything.

Ralph Cameron

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To: "Jon Griver" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:09 PM
Subject: RE: Y3K


>
>
>
> Personally I'm still waiting for another 48 years until the Y2K bug bites!
>
> Aside from its real meaning as degrees Kelvin, capital K was first used by
the
> computer guys as a de-facto agreed unit for binary thousand (1024) as in
Kbytes.
> Sloppiness by the financial community led to its use there for thousands
of
> dollars, etc. and ignorance by the media has resulted in its general use.
> Together with the shorthand loved by Americans this has led to Y2K!
>
> However of course the official unit for 1000 has always been lower case k,
as in
> km, kHz, etc.
>
> Happy Y2k ! (I won't see Y2K!)
>
> Roger
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