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  • From: Paul Ewing <paul AT shiningmoonfarm.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seed Catalogs
  • Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:42:20 -0600

> Maybe someone can explain to me why "m" in seeds means thousands?
> And in my former corporate life k=thousand and m=million, usually dollars -
> $5M=5million dollars


M is the Roman numeral for 1000 so it is a holdover and confusing
since no other Roman numerals are really used in quantity figures any
more.


Cheers,
Paul Ewing
Shining Moon Farm






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