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Source? Every source I've seen says that MM is derived from the Roman numeral M, meaning thousand.
by antonvs 6y ago
Source? Every source I've seen says that MM is derived from the Roman numeral M, meaning thousand.
- remram 6y agoWouldn't that make MM 2,000, the same way II is 2 and XX is 20?
- antonvs 6y agoIt would be if it was interpreted as an actual Roman number. But in this case it's treated as M x M. The actual Roman version of a million is an M with a bar over it, where the bar means x1000. But that's not an ordinary character, so wouldn't work for this purpose.