July 13th, 2002, 04:50 AM
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Re: Population in SEIV
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B wouldn't by chance be the Roman numeral for Million would it?
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Nope. M = 1000 is the largest "digit" the Romans used. For inconveniently large numbers, they drew a line over the number to indicate "1000 times". So
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M = 1,000,000
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