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Except it's the si unit for million.

https://www.npl.co.uk/si-units.

So MM users may be just some finance master of the universe douch bag.

MM is just the noise some people make when they see a financier bro.

Science wankers Vs money wankers. Go!

Also, the SI symbol M is Mega. We don't have megapounds.

If I'm reading that right the NPL-approved way to express a million pounds would be "one megapound"? And a billion would be "one gigapound"?

Can't see it catching on ;-)

lol the elephant hedge got there before me

We should have megapounds

If UK inflation continues at this rate we'll be able to explore the more exotic SI prefixes as we cart around wheelbarrows full of worthless cash.

https://youtu.be/eTeg1txDv8w

I prefer lower case "m"

Why write something twice or hold shift when you don't have to?

It looks nicer too.

Mainly because M means thousands in accounting. And Roman numerals.

Wouldn't want more doctors would we

Preparing for Brentry and the re-influx of European Dr's, surely.

[gc]I'm quite impressed by young Dominic Raab[/gc]. How he found time to even meet, never mind take the time to bully, 24 different people, shows massive dedication to the craft.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/25/dominic-raab-much-broader-inquiry-civil-servants-complaints

Japanese Youtuber's pet fish hack his Nintendo account, spend his money and leak his credit card details online.

He had a special setup with camera and motion mapping if I read it right?

This won't happen if you just put a fishbowl out?

Still, all hail our fish overlords and this is actually quite cool, if it's adapted to birds you can keep corvoids and parrots entertained.

Though I'd remove the credit card as parrots have been ordering their own food via Alexa!

......M is the SI prefix, not the unit. Values larger than the unit value tend to be upper case (M, G, T......but not k!) and lower values tend to be lower case (c, m, n, p, etc.)

It always hurt me a little that the si unit for mass is kg. Why not call it g?

This is written to make it sound like the cap is new, but there's always been a cap.

The cap is in place not because universities can't handle the students, but because every medical student needs a placement, and there is - quite rightly - a cap on placements to stop medical students cluttering up our hospitals.

In other words this isn't news, it's just another bollocks Times 'story'.

Do the French still use the cgi system (centimetre, gramme second) as opposed to the MKS (metre, kilogramme, second) system?

Random google: https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Kilogram

"
Originally the gram was going to be the base unit, but due to historical reasons regarding an artifact used to define the kilogram, the kilogram was chosen as the SI base unit for mass.
"

They made a decision, cast the decision in platinum-iridium and then they were stuck with it.

I've got loads of megapounds, don't even know where they all are I have so many.

Ten to the fucking 6 then.....just not MM.

Ten to the fucking 6

Great title for a rap song

It always hurt me a little that the si unit for mass is kg. Why not call it g?

And if the unit for velociy were called "whizz", then momentum would be...

Just realised the bloke in this picture (on stage, not in uniform) is the one arrested for harassing Matt Hancock.