metric version of 1000?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Yup, lighten up guys.  I did post this as a bit of humor, plus a
more general query about 2^x vs 10^x.  If I want 2^10, I know what
to enter.  The real question is "which two fingers do I count with?"

Jeff Earickson

On Tue, 2 May 2006, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 10:40:33 +0100
> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: metric version of 1000?
> 
> You have to laugh about this thread, I knew it would happen.
> I say something as simple as state that 10x10x10=1000 and people get uppity 
> about it.
> :-)
>
> Enough guys. 1000 = 1E3, not 2E10. Check the arithmetic with your calculator, 
> I think you'll find I'm right :-)
>
> And whatever anyone says about the ability of my calculator to do basic 
> arithmetic that any 7-year old child can do, I ain't changin' it...
>
> On 2 May 2006, at 10:24, James Gray wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2 May 2006 06:58 pm, Glenn Steen wrote:
>> 
>>> Why are you all "upset" about this?
>> 
>> Are you replying to me?  Or Jeff Earickson?  Three things:
>> 1. I was reinforcing Julian's choice of using base-10 instead of base-2
>>   multipliers.  I AGREE WITH JULIAN.
>> 2. I didn't mention anything about hard drive.
>> 3. I'm not bent out of shape about this.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> James
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