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I see, so when people use nMM they're using roman numerals to indicate million units? TIL That seems rather spurious and ambiguous, considering people general
by newnewpdro 7y ago
I 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.