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Re: Shock oil

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Subject: Re: Shock oil
From: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:40:00 -0700 (PDT)
In the US threaded fastener industry, M is frequently used to
denote 1,000.  So if you have "5M 1/4-20 Hex Nuts" you're
getting five thousand, not five million.  Apparently the
etymology is a strange combination of roman and arabic numerals.

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Distributed Systems S/W Analyst  |   other feller can't use,
Airborne Express, Inc.           |   so he gives it to you."
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