"M" as thousand

Subject: "M" as thousand
From: Mark Levinson <mark -at- SD -dot- CO -dot- IL>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 10:04:54 IST

Anyway, I have yet to see M used as 1000 anywhere else.

** M begins the word for "thousand" in Romance languages, and of course
it's also the Roman numeral. I think it's used a lot by folks
in/from Europe.
mark -at- sd -dot- co -dot- il


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