The BBC always end their credits with copyright and roman numerals
From: Scott Hudnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:35413] Re: Use of M for thousand Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:43:26 -0500 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 don¹t 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. -- Scott Hudnall From: Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:53:37 -0500 To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> 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 << image.jpg >>
