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PSA. “mm” is not a unit of currency. It is a unit of length - a millimetre. If you want to represent millions of dollars use ‘M’, e.g., $3.5M. I don’t know why
by lesserknowndan 4y ago
PSA. “mm” is not a unit of currency. It is a unit of length - a millimetre. If you want to represent millions of dollars use ‘M’, e.g., $3.5M.
I don’t know why people have started willfully using incorrect units, but it has to stop.
FFS, just Google it.
- dragonwriter 4y agoIn accounting/finance, m/M has a very long history of being 1,000 units, and mm/MM of being 1,000,000 units (it's not a unit itself, you still need the actual unit, it's effectively a representation of magnitude.) It is starting to be replaced in many contexts (e.g., AP style for financial headlines) by the newer still-not-SI approach where one thousand uses k, one million uses M, and one billion uses B. > I don’t know why people have started willfully using incorrect units They aren't incorrect, just different than SI, which doesn't have units of money. > FFS, just Google it. It's funny, because if you had bothered to take your own advice you would know that this isn't something people recently started doing. Do your research before telling people to do theirs.