Very impressive crowd today.
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M on its own means thousand, e.g $100M (100,000 dollars). M as a prefix, e.g. MB (megabytes*) or MHz (megahertz), means million.
* may be off by about 5% depending on context
* may be off by about 5% depending on context
Just listen
In the business world
generally M = 1,000
MM = 1Mill.
K did not come along until the computer world kicked in.
May not be that way in every organization, but many, that's just the way it is.
In the business world
generally M = 1,000
MM = 1Mill.
K did not come along until the computer world kicked in.
May not be that way in every organization, but many, that's just the way it is.
Where I work M=1,000, MM=1,000,00
Ill clarify further... The finance side uses that, the engineers use K=1,000, M=1,000,000.
Yeah but you keep doing this just to start an argument. Just say 11,000 to 12,000, how hard is that? And for those who keep taking the bait, if you can't figure out he meant thousand you are too stupid to post here.
Do you really think people didn't understand what he meant? People were messing with him because M generally means million and K equals thousand. Now as others have pointed out, that isn't always the case. I honestly had never heard of M meaning thousand, so you learn something new every day. Partly my fault, but this is a pretty dumb thing for people to get upset about.
Would you tools stop arguing over variations in numerical abbreviations?Everyone knew what he meant.
This argument isn't over until Stratdawg (I think) weighs in. He inadvertently started this argument months ago. There's a thread out there somewhere, but I'm too dumb and lazy to find it, I have beer to drink and a series win to celebrate.
Agreed -- At least there were a ton of recruits there to see it. Cohen mentioned that in the post-game. Strangely, no mention of the big crowd "putting too much pressure on the kids"**
If I were a baseball player being recruited by MSU and I was visiting for that game, pretty sure I'd be begging coaches to hand me papers to sign. Nowhere in the country can match what we showed those kids today. Been a long, long time since I've ever been prouder to be a baseball Bulldog -- and I'm still higher than most on the football team as well...
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Only on the sixpack would an argument occur involving whether "K" or "M" is better suited to represent the word "thousand".
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Can you not just be happy about the turnout today -- the fact that we are one good weekend away from a probable national seed -- and having hosting almost locked up at this point?
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There should be no argument. In the tech world, K=thousand (as in "kilo", so sorta metric), and M=million. And everybody knows tech rules ....
The only place in daily life where I've seen M used as thousand is on a Scott's lawn fertilizer bag ... as in, 5M and 15M for 5000 and 15000 square feet coverage from the two sizes. Not sure I'd consider them being an authoritative source on mathematical nomenclature ....
Superb crowd, but those LFL structures really don't look very stable at all. One of these days when there's an especially exciting play, the folks on top are going to be jumping up and down and the whole thing's going to cave in on the folks underneath on the ground.
Is there an official inspection of these things?
Is there an official inspection of these things?
Would you rather have the Vulcan mind meld or Jedi mind trick? Ogre needs to come in a clean this thread up. Besides everyone knows that a million is 10^6. Harned rules!