You made me gasp with joy, 2 seconds later I thought YouTube must has a counter issue, then I released you mean thousand views as in 23K vs million views as in 23M. Thanks for the laugh!!
>> This is stat girl humor but I like numbers!!
It has 73K now.
Well, now... back in the day (of Roman numerals) M was used the same way as K is today. And it wasn't a century ago (more like 50 years) that someone making 20M was only making $20,000.
Where were you in MCMLXII?
IN MCMLXII I was in Ohio -- oddly about 120 miles from where I am living now. I clearly have made no progress in life.
> I have lived in 18 different state but keep ending up in Ohio!!
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M, K, MM, m....Yes, it is confusing -- but today if you make $50,000 it is 50K. Once it was $50m. I would love to make $50M a year. I would be almost as rich as HeWhoCannot amed.
K = Kilo = thousand
M is the Roman numeral for 1,000 but in the metric system M designates the prefix mega- which is a million. For example MW is a megawatt. On the other hand m designates milli- or one thousandth so mm is a millimetre or 0.001 metres.
>> In other words, I was confused because it is confusing but it was funny to me?
How Many?
www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/ K
an informal abbreviation for one thousand used in
expressions where the unit is understood, such as "10K
run" (10 kilometers) or "700K disk" (700 kilobytes or
kibibytes). Note that "K" is also the symbol for the
kelvin (see below). Also note that the symbol for the
metric prefix kilo- (1000) is actually k-, not K-.
M [1]
informal abbreviation for million in expressions where
the base unit is understood, as in "500M hard drive"
(500 megabytes or mebibytes). In chemistry, M is the
symbol for "molar" (see below).
M [2]
the Roman numeral 1000, sometimes used in symbols to
indicate a thousand, as in Mcf, a traditional symbol
for 1000 cubic feet. Given the widespread use of M to
mean one million, this older use of M to mean 1000 is
very confusing and should be scrapped.
ETA: back to today's important number -- ALN is up to 83,212.
