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Re: Shock oil

To: crenner@dynalivery.com
Subject: Re: Shock oil
From: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:02:23 -0400
  The Economist (magazine), for one, uses m to represent one million.  
  MM seems a sensible notation to add the additional 000 to 1,000. I have
not seen it used in any context before. It is clear and easy to use too. 
Bob


On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:45:32 -0500 Chuck Renner <crenner@dynalivery.com>
writes:
> > M = 1,000
> > m = 1,000,000
> 
> Don't know who uses a little m to represent one million.  In the oil 
> and gas
> industry, M is 1,000, and MM is 1,000,000.

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