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
Edited by superninjaadmin on 11/12/02 11:22 PM.
