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Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by programmer_dude on Friday October 21, 2022 @09:53AM (#33287996)
> An expense of $60,000 could be written as $60M

This is unfortunate. $60,000 is $60K (capital K not k) using SI suffixes. Please reject M=1000 today.

Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by david_allison on Friday October 21, 2022 @11:13AM (#33288850)
> Please reject M=1000 today.

This is infeasible, and what does it mean to reject something in a written document?

I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish here: you're arguing against an established convention in a sector of the market which you don't have experience with.

The upside if you're successful is that I don't need to type an additional 'M'.

The downside is that it requires enforcing a blanket standard on an industry, rather than letting it converge over time to an unambiguous standard.

Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by programmer_dude on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:06PM (#33291121)
Help the convergence along by objecting to the use of M=1000 wherever you see it. We already have an unambiguous standard (it is the SI system of units and suffixes if you are unsure). People should be using it.