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It may imply they’d need 1.4 million (mm is millimeters…) shards to meet that test number, and scale linearly while doing it, though.
by boardwaalk 5y ago
It may imply they’d need 1.4 million (mm is millimeters…) shards to meet that test number, and scale linearly while doing it, though.
- coolsunglasses 5y agomm is mille mille, meaning a thousand thousand. 1,000 * 1,000 is 1 million. 1mm to mean 1 million is common outside of the United States.
- gmalette 5y agoI live outside the United States and have never seen mm mean anything other than millimeter
- Smaug123 5y agoMeanwhile I live in the UK and it's completely standard for monetary quantities.
- boardwaalk 5y agoI’ve seen that use for sure. Perhaps a little telling we’re talking about blockchain tech and that’s what people are using. Is it really about a fast distributed transaction log, or… is it about the money first.
- fanf2 5y agoThe Financial Times recently changed their abbreviation for million from “m” to “mn” to help screen readers. They would typically read an m suffix as metres; I guess the FT chose mn rather than mm so that screen readers would not say millimetres instead of million.
- ShrigmaMale 5y agoI am American and commonly see mm to mean million.
- eternalban 5y agoIt has to be capitalized. 1.5MM is 1.5 million. 1.5mm is 1.5 millimeters.
- unmole 5y agoThere's a difference between mm and MM.