Yeah, Roman numeral "M" is a 40+ year practice that sales people used at the wholesale and manufacturing levels as kind of a shorthand for 1000. As they have migrated to computers this has mostly gone away because the quantity fields only supported "ea" items standing for "each".
Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 7:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Calculate 1 MB in TSM >Unfortunately, our bean counters started using 60K for $60,000. When >the mainframe 3380 came out they decided to start counting disk in >1000s and 1000000s. This has just perpetuated on for disk to make it >easy for people to calculate the space required because data records >are measured in base 10 not base 2. So, we are stuck with it. TSM >uses the open systems calculation, 1024. Some businesses further confuse things by internally using the letter M to denote 1000, in unit quantities in satisfying orders. They should be required to perform all their math in Roman numerals. Richard Sims, BU
