Roger, way back in the days of the caveman, 1M ohms = 1000 ohms. Guess going metric changed everything.
Ralph Cameron ----- Original Message ----- From: <roger.vi...@wwgsolutions.com> To: "Jon Griver" <jgri...@i-spec.com> Cc: <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:09 PM Subject: RE: Y3K > > > > Personally I'm still waiting for another 48 years until the Y2K bug bites! > > Aside from its real meaning as degrees Kelvin, capital K was first used by the > computer guys as a de-facto agreed unit for binary thousand (1024) as in Kbytes. > Sloppiness by the financial community led to its use there for thousands of > dollars, etc. and ignorance by the media has resulted in its general use. > Together with the shorthand loved by Americans this has led to Y2K! > > However of course the official unit for 1000 has always been lower case k, as in > km, kHz, etc. > > Happy Y2k ! (I won't see Y2K!) > > Roger > > > > --------- > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, > jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or > roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators). > > > --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).
