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It's best not to dwell on it (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Everywhere else in the world a big M means million.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, shouldn't that be Kcf, Kilo cubic foot?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Kilo is a small k as there wasn't a person named that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think in this case it's Roman numeral M

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Americans really using ANYTHING but metric, huh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The only thing that would make more sense would be if the bill was in cuneiform.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Except languages like French (mille)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And Irish -- míle.