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Originally Posted by DRH
Not to belabor the "M" issue, but I spent my career in the banking business and in finance "M" indicates thousands and "MM" indicates millions. Strange, but I never did learn the correct designation for "gazillion". Maybe "GZ"?  |
It gets worse ... in the engineering world k = 1000 and comes from kilo as in a kilometer is a 1000 meters. Recently because the computer has become so commonplace you have the digital people, who like to count in base2 vs normal base10, always reffering to k = 1024. When you buy a computer you may see memory counted in k's or M's but you're never sure if it's k=1000; M=1000 x 1000 or k=1024; M=1024 x 1024. And when you have 1/1000 (1 thousandth) of something, it's m as in 1/1000 sec = 1 msec (milli-second).
As for gazillion, I don't know either. You never run into such numbers unless you're dealing with the Federal budget
