The Truth About Islam

PatRobertson.com ^ | November 22, 2002 | Ted Haggard

[crystalk]

Silly, I said 400 THOUSAND, not million, are going to mosques each week...

with perhaps another 1.6 million being women, children, occasional attending men, persons on mailing lists locally, attenders of social events, merely curious etc.

[donmeaker]

the quote was "400M" which usually is Million, but might be if you are french mille which means thousand. Alas, a case of an ambiguous abrieviation.

[crystalk]

Roman numeral M = 1000.

I know of no culture or place where the use of M would imply a million.

[SauronOfMordor]

I know of no culture or place where the use of M would imply a million.

In the US, particularly among people who use computers, "M" is used for million (mega) and K is used for thousand (kilo)

[crystalk]

I myself sometimes use the LOWER case m to mean million, where that would be clear, but the upper case M is always a thousand AFAIK.

Of course it is wise to use these only where the context makes the sense clear, I would have thought that to be the case in the quote about weekly US Muslim worship attendance, obviously that could not be in the Millions, much less the hundreds of Millions!

[donmeaker]

Engineers routinely use M for Mega..... G for Giga, K for Kilo. You have heard of Kilometers? It is part of the international system of measurement, or SI.

Mega is a million of what ever it is