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It's 127m as in meters, not 127M as in millions. I think the actual price was more around 300M.

by belval 4y ago

unmole 4y ago
Millions is usually abbreviated to MM for this reason.
- jasone 4y ago
  No, MM is an abject abuse of Roman numerals (which means 2,000), as near as I can tell thanks to a nomenclature distortion originally involving CPM (cost per thousand impressions). I can't get over how messed up MM=million is.
  - gaadd33 4y ago
    "mm" is frequently used in finance and probably predates the existence of CPM
- blackfawn 4y ago
  So millimeters, then? :) "M" is used quite frequently for million along with "K" for thousand. "MM" as million is used in conjunction with "M" for thousand, but that's a different notation set. "M" & "K" usage is generally much more popular than "MM" and "M", at least in any areas I've been.
  - unmole 4y ago
    > So millimeters, then? :) The difference between mm and MM is rather easy to spot.
geodel 4y ago
Thanks. I was confused on such a coincidence like 127mt costs 127 million and named Y721.
bilsbie 4y ago
It’s confusing. Cruise ships are way bigger and don’t cost that much more.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  Cruise ships cost like 500 million though.
- jl6 4y ago
  I imagine there are many economies of scale in a cruise ship that you wouldn’t see here. Cabins that are all pretty much the same, with the same fittings and fixtures. Cruise ships are also highly derivative of previous cruise ship designs. This one is probably completely bespoke, and kitted out with gold-plated everything. Also, take Harmony of the Seas as an example. It’s about 3x longer (362m) and cost about 3x as much ($1.35bn). One could argue cost scales with volume more than length, but on the other hand, maybe this is telling us that it doesn’t.
- geodel 4y ago
  Yes same thing. A 50 passenger Charter bus is way bigger then Ferrari and in-fact usually cost less than a Ferrari
  - dogma1138 4y ago
    A bus is around $500,000, a Ferrari will be cheaper unless you are going for some limited production or collectible model.
    - dragonwriter 4y ago
      > a Ferrari will be cheaper unless you are going for some limited production or collectible model. You can get used busses for far less thab $500,000, and, if you are comparing new, well, its practically impossible to get a new Ferrarri, and the cost isn’t justthe nominal purchase price, its jumping through the hoops Ferrarri erects. (Yes, that’s worse for “limited production” models where they want you to own four Ferrarris to get on the list on top of everything else, but its true more generally, and Ferrarris total production would barely be a single limited production model for most automakers.)
jalk 4y ago
So now Bezos has the longest one.

It's 127m as in meters, not 127M as in millions. I think the actual price was more around 300M.

by belval 4y ago

It's 127m as in meters, not 127M as in millions. I think the actual price was more around 300M.

unmole 4y ago

Millions is usually abbreviated to MM for this reason.

jasone 4y ago
No, MM is an abject abuse of Roman numerals (which means 2,000), as near as I can tell thanks to a nomenclature distortion originally involving CPM (cost per thousand impressions). I can't get over how messed up MM=million is.
- gaadd33 4y ago
  "mm" is frequently used in finance and probably predates the existence of CPM
blackfawn 4y ago
So millimeters, then? :) "M" is used quite frequently for million along with "K" for thousand. "MM" as million is used in conjunction with "M" for thousand, but that's a different notation set. "M" & "K" usage is generally much more popular than "MM" and "M", at least in any areas I've been.
- unmole 4y ago
  > So millimeters, then? :) The difference between mm and MM is rather easy to spot.

geodel 4y ago

Thanks. I was confused on such a coincidence like 127mt costs 127 million and named Y721.

bilsbie 4y ago

It’s confusing. Cruise ships are way bigger and don’t cost that much more.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
Cruise ships cost like 500 million though.
jl6 4y ago
I imagine there are many economies of scale in a cruise ship that you wouldn’t see here. Cabins that are all pretty much the same, with the same fittings and fixtures. Cruise ships are also highly derivative of previous cruise ship designs. This one is probably completely bespoke, and kitted out with gold-plated everything. Also, take Harmony of the Seas as an example. It’s about 3x longer (362m) and cost about 3x as much ($1.35bn). One could argue cost scales with volume more than length, but on the other hand, maybe this is telling us that it doesn’t.
geodel 4y ago
Yes same thing. A 50 passenger Charter bus is way bigger then Ferrari and in-fact usually cost less than a Ferrari
- dogma1138 4y ago
  A bus is around $500,000, a Ferrari will be cheaper unless you are going for some limited production or collectible model.
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    > a Ferrari will be cheaper unless you are going for some limited production or collectible model. You can get used busses for far less thab $500,000, and, if you are comparing new, well, its practically impossible to get a new Ferrarri, and the cost isn’t justthe nominal purchase price, its jumping through the hoops Ferrarri erects. (Yes, that’s worse for “limited production” models where they want you to own four Ferrarris to get on the list on top of everything else, but its true more generally, and Ferrarris total production would barely be a single limited production model for most automakers.)

jalk 4y ago

So now Bezos has the longest one.