Yikes. Fascinating stuff, Matthew.

… it would seem. Combine that with abuse of the case conventions for ‘milli’ (m) and ‘mega’ (M), and you would potentially be out by a factor of eight billion if you wrote 1 MB (megabyte) as 1 mb (millibit — not that this actually exists).
Forget Oxford Commas — Mangled Weights and Measures Are the Real Menace to Society
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Yikes. Fascinating stuff, Matthew.
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