why does M = 1000
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- ldww
ok, so i know M means thousand in the print world and it has always been like that. but does anyone know where that came from???
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roman numerals
M is 1,000. You see a lot of Ms because Roman numerals are used a lot to indicate dates. For instance, this page was written in the year of Nova Roma's founding, 1998 CE (Common Era; Christians use AD for Anno Domini, "year of our Lord"). That year is written as MCMXCVIII. But wait! Nova Roma counts years from the founding of Rome, ab urbe condita. By that reckoning this is 2751, or MMDCCLI.
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I think it has smething to do with C = 100 and V = 5
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blame the romans
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uh, the romans
- hiphoprelic0
Check out the big brain on nick...
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blame fucking bin laden.
he makes everything difficult.
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nick big brain came from this site
- ldww0
that explains it. thanks
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so damn... the m5 is actually the bmw 5000? that sounds gay. good thing they went with m5.
- hiphoprelic0
Wow...
you, like got real good internet skills.
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M equals 1000 because the roman s used to mark every 1000 meters with a stone called "millia". that's where Mile or Milha (in portuguese) comes from.
I don't know why the Mile is 1,6 mts though. maybe their "meter" was bigger than the present French standart meter.
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oops, there's a link already. sorry
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oops again.
that info is wrong. the internet is full of shitty information.
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er, yeah... i wasnt trying to pass that off as my own. i didnt even read the parag before pasting it
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