💬 Heather Denich doesn't like numbers.

[It Takes Eleven]

Is there a value to using Roman numerals today (beyond the 12 on a clock)? If the Roman numeral system was so good, why did Rome fail? Asking for a friend.

Traditional finance, accounting and banking uses "M" to signify thousands instead of the "K" which is prevalent in popular culture. To signify a million, you'd use "MM" (a thousand thousand), so 5M would be 5,000 and 5MM would be 5 million.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

the "K" which is prevalent in popular culture.

K can be confusing itself. It stands for kilo, which most read to mean 1000 but in computers it means 1024 since everything is powers of 2. Except that many hard drive manufacturers use K and M to mean 1,000 or 1,000,000 when stating the device capacity but note the formatted capacity in 1,024 and 1,048,576 increments elsewhere.

 

[BamaFan334]

K can be confusing itself. It stands for kilo,

The DEA is on to you now.

 

[sean]

I guess she's not a fan of Van Halen, then.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

I guess she's not a fan of Van Halen, then.

Led Zeppelin did it first, and better.

 

[sean]

Led Zeppelin did it first, and better.

True, but theirs are easy.

 

[RollllTide!]

Miles vs kilometers
Years are metric
Months vs years are not
30 days are not
Standards like 16 inches on center are not.
The 6 inch penis is a whopping 15.24 centimeters. New meaning for the whopper . The government should have used examples like that to sell the metric system.

 

[footballer]

I imagine there are lots of numbers that don't like her.

 

[JoshB]

So does that mean Roman numerals are going to go the way of cursive writing?

If you are too stupid to figure it out, we will just stop using it altogether! The American way

I still write notes in cursive tot his day. We had an intern last year that wanted to read over my notes one day and she looked super confused looking at them. I was like, "my handwriting isn't THAT bad is it?" And she said it looked like it was in Spanish

 

[bamascw]

I still write notes in cursive tot his day. We had an intern last year that wanted to read over my notes one day and she looked super confused looking at them. I was like, "my handwriting isn't THAT bad is it?" And she said it looked like it was in Spanish

Hahaha

My writing is atrocious! I always took notes in cursive because it’s faster but I don’t think they even teach it anymore

 

[PurlJam]

Several....it seems...of us where there....
But survived the flood...

My maw maw put me in a basket on the river...and the rest is history.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

While not near as old as some of you, I always told my kids I remember when we didn't have dirt and had to rub rocks together to make it.

 

[PurlJam]

My younger days.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

My younger days.
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So let it be written…

 

[bama alum]

I guess she's not a fan of Van Halen, then.

I already knew she was useless. Now, you've only heavily reinforced my disdain of her!

 

[PurlJam]

I guess she's not a fan of Van Halen, then.

She’s heathen.



I saw this at the BJCC in January of 1984.... blew my mind...or at least I think that's what blew my mind.
My hearing hasn't been the same since.