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MM is widely used within the finance industry to mean million(s). It comes from Latin "Mille" meaning "thousand", so MM is a "thousand thousands" which equals
by adamt 16y ago
MM is widely used within the finance industry to mean million(s).
It comes from Latin "Mille" meaning "thousand", so MM is a "thousand thousands" which equals one million.
- cabalamat 16y ago"MM" is even worse than "mm", because "M" is the international standard abbreviation for 10^6, so MM would by extension mean 10^12.
- ars 16y agoExcept it doesn't. The metric system doesn't work that way. M is not the international standard abbreviation for 10^6. M is the SI system for 10^6, which is not the same thing - SI has some extra rules. If you write MM you are clearly not using SI (since it makes no sense in SI), so it's not that hard to figure out. M has meant 1000 for a lot longer than it's meant 10^6. And BTW, lowercase m means milli, so by your logic mm should mean 1/1000000 - so tell me again why MM is worse?
- roel_v 16y agoI meant to downvote but misclicked, so I'll just comment ars's comment above is to the best of my knowledge much more accurate than yours.