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I did a google search to find out how much i pay for water, the water department where I live bills by the MCF (1,000 cubic feet). The AI Overview told me an MCF was one million cubic feet. It's a unit of measurement. It's not subjective, not an opinion and AI still got it wrong.
Everywhere else in the world a big M means million.
I think in this case it's Roman numeral M
Americans really using ANYTHING but metric, huh?
The only thing that would make more sense would be if the bill was in cuneiform.
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Yeah, shouldn't that be Kcf, Kilo cubic foot?
Kilo is a small k as there wasn't a person named that.
Except languages like French (mille)
And Irish -- míle.
Shouldn't it be kcf? Or tcf if you're desperate to avoid standard prefixes?
Yeah, that's an odd one. My city does water by the gallon, which is much more reasonable.
I just think you need an abbrevations chart.