On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 15:49:28 -0700
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> * Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030604 15:44]:
> > convenience, not "standardization".  Also, I don't know how far it goes 
> > back, but I'm sure that the 1e6 usage of the mega- prefix was in use
> > long before the SI came around ~1 centuries ago.  I'd call several
> > decades of the 2^10 usage pretty meager.
> 
> Bah, typo.  That was supposed to be ~2 centuries ago.

You missed the big one. What the hell is 1.0e6? Shouldn't that be 1.0x10^6?

Kevin


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