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Originally Posted by turretslug
There's an old US convention of using Roman 'M' where we're used to seeing 'k' for the 1,000x multiplier, it can make for few double-takes at first!
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Anyone who's fluent in Italian will be familiar with "Mille" as 1000.
It can be perplexing at first to see this in 1930s/1940s schematics/circuits, but it always reminds me that the science of radio owes rather a lot to a certain Italian gentleman....