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  • From: "Bill Bradshaw" <billbradshaw AT hughes.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seed Catalogs
  • Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:09:29 -0600

I think Roman numerals have been held over long enough. Time to move on. Bill

----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Ewing" <paul AT shiningmoonfarm.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 5:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seed Catalogs


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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