Title: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: bohorquez on December 10, 2002, 08:02:23 pm
When You See 25M You Know It's:
a. 25,000,000
b. 250,000
c. 25,000
d. Is that how much you won playing the lotto?
p.s. I guess I couldn't do a poll cuz I'm not special.....
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Bridget
Wife to Eduardo (12/4/99), Mommy to Aaron (10/26/01)
a. 25,000,000
b. 250,000
c. 25,000
d. Is that how much you won playing the lotto?
p.s. I guess I couldn't do a poll cuz I'm not special.....
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Bridget
Wife to Eduardo (12/4/99), Mommy to Aaron (10/26/01)
Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: bohorquez on December 10, 2002, 08:09:00 pm
what happened to my picture! 
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Bridget
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Bridget
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Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: sueg22 on December 10, 2002, 08:11:08 pm
Ummmmm, is it A?
That what I would think.
That what I would think.
Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: superninjaadmin on December 10, 2002, 08:43:05 pm
My guess is "A" 25 million
Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: dwreath on December 10, 2002, 08:49:03 pm
My guess would be "A" also.
I would love to hear that it was D though.
I would love to hear that it was D though.
Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: chris68 on December 10, 2002, 08:54:47 pm
My first thought was A too. And NO I wouldn't mind winning that in the lotto; in fact I wouldn't mind winning anything in lotto. I started playing this year and still haven't won a nickle.
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Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: countrigal on December 10, 2002, 09:05:34 pm
I agree with everyone... It's A, but I wouldn't mind it being D also.
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Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: margo_j_w on December 11, 2002, 11:56:20 am
I agree - it's A.
But just like everyone else - I'd like it to be D.
Margo
But just like everyone else - I'd like it to be D.
Margo
Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: bohorquez on December 11, 2002, 09:23:02 pm
Well I was really hoping that someone knew!! Actually 25M is 25,000. 25MM is Million. I wish I won the lotto, and I would have been happy with either amount :)
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Bridget
Wife to Eduardo (12/4/99), Mommy to Aaron (10/26/01)
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Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: countrigal on December 11, 2002, 09:38:39 pm
I thought 25K was 25,000 since K signifies thousands. Just goes to show that I can be fooled and misled easily.
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Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: bohorquez on December 11, 2002, 09:46:08 pm
Now I'm really confused! You're right sooooo what's 25M !??!?! 
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Bridget
Wife to Eduardo (12/4/99), Mommy to Aaron (10/26/01)
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Bridget
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Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: countrigal on December 11, 2002, 10:03:17 pm
I thought 25M was 25,000,000 or 25 million... and that 25MM would be 25million million, or some abstract, huge number that I would hate to try to put the correct 0's to.
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Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: gennysmom on December 11, 2002, 10:23:35 pm
According to my boss, who has worked in finance for way too many years by his account, $25M would be $25,000 and $25MM would be $25,000,000 (either of which would make wonderful lottery winnings!)
He thinks it has something to do with the Roman numerals, as M would be 1000. Therefore MM would be M times M, which would be 1,000 times 1,000, which equals a million.
He thinks it has something to do with the Roman numerals, as M would be 1000. Therefore MM would be M times M, which would be 1,000 times 1,000, which equals a million.
Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: countrigal on December 11, 2002, 10:52:36 pm
So what is 25K? You always here of folks saying that something costs xx-thousands, or xxK, so where did this develop from? Inquiring minds would like to learn right..
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Title: Somehow I KNEW this was perhaps tricky question!!
Post by: superninjaadmin on December 12, 2002, 12:20:01 am
When I read Bridget's question, the first thought I had was Hmmm... could this be a trick question? Anyway...it seems that it was! I remember about a year ago talking with our accountants here at work about using K and M. (Their acocunting reports specifically use K for "thousand" and M for "million") -- K and M are completely different languages, so to speak... "Kilo" is thousand for metric and M is thousand for Roman Numeral. Anyway, I just did a search and found some interesting information about the use of K and M with regards to accounting and numbers. From what the professor in the article states, (in the attached link), the use of M is confusing and shouldn't be used for "thousand" in accounting any longer ...(apparently it's the old school way of writing it, but no longer used because of confusion between the more popular and widely used metric system) (see link below for details)
So... I guess we were wrong (Roman numeral-wise)...but we were also correct (with new way of using the M symbol for million), too!! [smile}
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/60697.html
SNA
So... I guess we were wrong (Roman numeral-wise)...but we were also correct (with new way of using the M symbol for million), too!! [smile}
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/60697.html
SNA
Edited by superninjaadmin on 11/12/02 11:22 PM.
Title: Re: Somehow I KNEW this was perhaps tricky question!!
Post by: beaintheuk on December 12, 2002, 11:44:38 am
The more I read the threads the more I got confused but your theory makes sense.
M and MM are Roman for thousands and million and K is for Kilo so 25.000 can be written 25K and 25M.
That's confusing!!
Bea
M and MM are Roman for thousands and million and K is for Kilo so 25.000 can be written 25K and 25M.
That's confusing!!
Bea
Title: Re: Somehow I KNEW this was perhaps tricky question!!
Post by: alisonfaebeith on December 12, 2002, 02:00:46 pm
Ummm.... isn't M = 1000 and MM = 2000? (Like in the year 2000, the copyright at the end of films was "MM")
Title: Re: Come Vote On My Poll!!!
Post by: ozbound on December 13, 2002, 12:25:14 am
25-C@@L Million, baby! 