For millimeters, mm would be lowercase.
Always preferred metric for physics problems involving mass,
acceleration, etc., in college -- but when I worked as a machinist I
hated metric -- the thread system is the worst compared to English
measure.
Gary McCormick
San Jose, CA
On May 30, 2013, at 10:55 PM, Pete Peters wrote:
> Metric is sooooooooo easy. In 1989, there was still one speed limit
> sign in
> kilometers going over the Likelike Hwy on O'hau, HI. Wonder if it's
> still
> there. Anyway....
>
> Other than Roman numerals, I have never seen "MM" stand for
> anything other
> than millimeters. Had to Google it to learn that MM is a correct
> abbreviation.
>
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Thompson [mailto:tommy@dcwisp.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:13 PM
> To: Bob Dicke; ppeters914@comcast.net; 'Datsun Roadster List'
> Subject: Re: [Roadsters] FW: Send pics.
>
> The US is the only industrialized country on the planet that
> doesn't use the
> metric system (something we have in common with Burma and Liberia),
> although
> most of us medical doctors use it regularly. It was hilarious when,
> as a
> college senior working at 7-11 in Lawrence, Kansas in 1974 (and
> driving the
> only Datsun roadster in town), we switched the gas pumps to liters,
> confusing the ignorant masses beyond belief. Still, most of us
> would use
> the metric '$10K' to represent ten thousand dollars, reserving Roman
> numerals only for 'millions' and Mafia talk. Note, however, that
> while Bob's
> MM is meant to represent one thousand thousand, in Roman numeral
> speak it's
> actually only two thousand, so $10MM is really only twenty thousand
> dollars.....
> T
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Dicke" <rtdengr@charter.net>
> To: <ppeters914@comcast.net>; "'Datsun Roadster List'"
> <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Roadsters] FW: Send pics.
>
>
>> Ten million would be $10MM
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: datsun-roadsters-bounces@autox.team.net
>> [mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
>> ppeters914@comcast.net
>> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 5:09 PM
>> To: Datsun Roadster List
>> Subject: Re: [Roadsters] FW: Send pics.
>>
>> It may be immaculate, but $10 million?
>>
>> Pete
>> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Perry Smith <tpsmithstl@yahoo.com>
>> Sender: datsun-roadsters-bounces@autox.team.netDate: Thu, 30 May 2013
>> 13:58:00
>> To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>> Subject: [Roadsters] FW: Send pics.
>>
>> I am forwarding this as a favor to a friend. The car is located in
>> Fenton, MO
>> - just outside St. Louis. I have personally seen this car and it
>> looks immaculate. I know he stored the car in his basement every
>> Winter, so it hasn't even seen the typical bad weather here in
>> StL. This
> is a 1600.
>>
>> I have no financial interest in the car and I'm perfectly happy with
>> my 2L, but wanted to let the list know of it before he sends it to
>> the
>> general community.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Charles Davis [mailto:daviscw@earthlink.net]
>> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 3:04 PM
>> To: Smith, Perry
>> Subject: Fwd: Send pics.
>>
>> The car. If you could let some folks know about it. 105,000 miles.
>> $10m
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