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MM=B?
by samoa42 7y ago
MM=B?
- advisedwang 7y agoIn the financial world MM is used to mean million.
- alasdair_ 7y agoM is 1000 in roman numerals. MM is one million.
- aashishkoirala 7y agoI think MM is 2000 in Roman numerals, no?
- munk-a 7y agoYou are technically correct, financial dudes like roman numerals but somewhere in history someone (probably someone reeeeeally powerful) started using MM for million and thus started the trend. Aside, swiss watches tend to have a watch maker's four on them instead of the more correct IV... and apparently there are a bunch of other variations out there[1]. Though MM is still quite stupid. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Variant_forms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Variant_forms
- thaumasiotes 7y agoI believe the thought behind MM is "a thousand thousand", using the roman numeral as if it were a positional digit. Not sure how someone got the idea to do that...
- ta5436546n4 7y agoAlgebraically it makes sense I guess (M.M)