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It's because in finance/accounting the MM is taken from Roman Numerals. I'm not sure why it's got magically implicit multiplication instead of the standard Rom
by opello 3y ago
It's because in finance/accounting the MM is taken from Roman Numerals. I'm not sure why it's got magically implicit multiplication instead of the standard Roman Numeral reading (2000 for MM) but such is life.
Interesting, a thread from another article on this topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451283