[USMA:35413] Re: Use of M for thousand

[Scott Hudnall]

Title: Re: [USMA:35411] Use of M for thousand

Hehehe. Roman numerals, eh? Get rid of them! The only place I have seen those used in modern times is in the movie industry when the studio marketers don’t want people to think they might be watching an older movie by disguising the year of the copyright in Roman numerals. That practice seems to have fallen off a little since the turn of the millenium.

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Scott Hudnall

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From: Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:53:37 -0500
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Subject: [USMA:35411] Use of M for thousand

I'm going through data files that I'm converting, and one of them uses "M" for
thousand, "C" for hundred, "/M" for per thousand, and "/C" for per hundred.
To me "M" on the end of a number means million, and "C" on the end of a
number means 12 in hex. What should I do about these symbols?

The proposed standard, which I'm using in the program, uses 0000 for both
"pieces" and "for each", so 000012 means "hundred pieces" and 00000e means
"per hundred". Should these be separated? (The number per hundred is actually
dollars per hundred, but the codes ignore dollars.)

phma