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[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:27:48 -0400, "Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@derrynh.net> said:

> Pet Peeve Time!
> M is 1000 (not 1,000,000), so many newspapers and e-mailers get this wrong!

> MM is 1,000,000 (Hail Caesar!)

> Rant mode off.....

Which ISO standard can I find that one in?

In the standard system of units, M is the symbol for "mega", which is
the prefix that means "million".  It's a bit nonstandard to use the
symbols as multipliers for arbitrary numbers, rather than for units --
you wouldn't use the spelled-out prefixes that way -- but that's the
way it goes.  G is the symbol for "giga", which is the prefix that
means "billion" -- news of which has apparently not yet reached the
New York Post.  If you mean thousand, you need "k", the symbol for the
prefix "kilo".

-GAWollman