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4500? That's almost noise level. Certainly it's not anything close to a bloodbath. Truck drivers are the #1 job in the US, @ 3.5mm drivers. But then again, it'
by jiveturkey 7y ago
4500? That's almost noise level. Certainly it's not anything close to a bloodbath. Truck drivers are the #1 job in the US, @ 3.5mm drivers.
But then again, it's BI so ...
- newnewpdro 7y agoWhat is 3.5mm supposed to mean? Million? What's the second m?
- HEHENE 7y agoIt's a matter of preference. M = mega (in metric) = one million MM = two of the roman numeral M = one thousand thousand = one million. Both are correct.
- newnewpdro 7y agoI see, so when people use nMM they're using roman numerals to indicate million units? TIL That seems rather spurious and ambiguous, considering people generally use nK for thousand units, and mixing roman numerals now makes metric nM a collision with thousands.
- jiveturkey 7y agoMM is a financial abbreviation. It used to be "the standard" but nowadays they also use M. Compare with the "M" in CPM, which is not the roman 'M' but the French 'Mille'. So, "M" is sometimes ambiguous. In this case it wouldn't be, but I always use mm or MM to mean million, and bn or BN to mean billion.
- kristianp 7y agoThe confusion is that they used small 'm', which in metric is a meter. "mm" is a millimeter in metric, 1/1000 of a meter.
- Hydraulix989 7y agomilimeter?