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Are you using "mig" as milligram or microgram? For that to be a term you'd use, I assume you recognize you're responding to a quantity in micrograms.
Micrograms? You mean millicentigrams, commonly abbreviated as mcg by people who avoid proper SI- symbols?
Since milli means 1/10^3 and centi means 1/10^2, I propose millicenti means 1/10^(3*2) or 1/10^6.
Or the extended keycode-averse could just use ug.
I assume your comment is very tongue-in-cheek, in which case it was a fun read. What follows is my response if it isn't.
Well, the top-level comment said μg, which was the basis of my questioning the second-level comment. Not sure where your millicentigrams came from.
Also, your math is weird. You wouldn't multiply your exponents like that, you'd add them. As noted at the top, though, I suspect your whole comment is in jest and the math is meant to be the giveaway aimed at the literal-minded like me.
I know you wouldn't multiply exponents that way unless it's an exponent of an exponent. In any case, it's the only way I can make the term "mcg" actually make sense.
Think of it as giving someone the benefit of the doubt to the point of absurdity.