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Okay that title was confusing, the 3M is quantity not the company 3M’s locks. The locks are not build by 3M or a subsidiary.

• mikestew 3y ago
  It would be nice if the title could get changed, as per below, because it confused me, too: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/fixed-income/mm-millions/ https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/fixed-income...
  • Shog9 3y ago
    The original title sez "millions" and is clearly distinct from both "Minnesota mining and manufacturing" and "millimeters".
    • rad_gruchalski 3y ago
      Yes, because the millimeter is “mm”, a meter is “m” and “M” means mega (for example MPa for megapascal) in SI.
      • Shog9 3y ago
        The gp here was referencing a weird little bit of accountant jargon that uses a corruption of roman numerals to indicate million as a product of thousands. It's a terrible idea, but crops up in software circles occasionally due to the number of folks stuck writing financial software. AFAIK, even accountants are slowly moving away from it for ... Obvious reasons.
• TylerE 3y ago
  It's especially confusing because 3M does make almost every thing under the sun, from respirators to electrical tape to medical equipment and supplies. No locks as far as I can find though.
  • lozf 3y ago
    But with a roll of 3M Gaffa Tape, you can secure an hotel room door such that those inside inside the room can't open it without help from outside. * other brands of very sticky strong tape are available.
    • aqfamnzc 3y ago
      How?
      • alephnerd 3y ago
        Just tape the victims to a bed and relive Gerald's Game
      • lozf 3y ago
        Apply tape to the door and frame length-ways at the top and all the way down the opening edge. Layer it up with some overlap to re-enforce both whats on the door, and the door frame. Do likewise at the bottom edge, adding a seal to the floor / carpet. Don't be frugal (these are drunk roadies in full prank mode)... use your imagination ;)
    • golergka 3y ago
      You could, of course, still open it with 3M Glass Bubbles or explosives from other brands.
      • ale42 3y ago
        Since when are glass bubbles explosive?
        • Arrath 3y ago
          3M product brochure: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1226911O/glass-bubbles-for-mining-brochure.pdf https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1226911O/glass-bubbles-f... See page 64: https://www.austinpowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/The-Complete-Blasters-Guide.pdf https://www.austinpowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/The-... Not explosive in and of themselves, but a component in modern industrial explosives. As a sensitizer and a density modifier.
• toss1 3y ago
  Yes, please change it to 3MM, which also abbreviates to "3 million". My first impression was strongly that 3M had some lock system that was now compromised, not that it was referring to 3 million locks in the wild. Also perhaps consider expanding the headline character limit above 80, or maybe not count numbers in the total.
  • dylan604 3y ago
    it would take all of about 3 seconds to realize why an unlimited character count would break the site's layout and know that it will never happen. i do agree that the "don't editorialize" and strict char count are very contradictory, but suggesting that the site changes because of it is also naive at best.
    • stavros 3y ago
      It took about 1 second to realize that "80 characters" and "unlimited" aren't the only two options.
      • toss1 3y ago
        Exactly; thank you. I was definitely NOT thinking of unlimited. I was thinking of 80chars, but excluding numerals (123, etc) and number text ("thousand", "million" etc.) and maybe a few other items excluded from the count, with a maximum of 100, or whatever number actually will not break the layout. I've found it frustrating trying to fit in 80chars, and e.g., finding that ampersand gets expanded so it actually counts more than "and", so it is not a single-rule 80 chars; perhaps a few more sophisticated rules might help. Just a suggestion.
        • aqfamnzc 3y ago
          Not that it really matters, but I found it interesting thinking of ways this could be broken... million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million
• _giorgio_ 3y ago
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• dpsych 3y ago
  Does 3M stand for 3 musketeers?
• ShamelessC 3y ago
  While I agree, I think you underestimated how much this comment thread would wind up somewhat derailing conversation about the actual article. Dear lord people it's a simple disambiguation - there's no need for upwards of 40 comments about it.
  • dimask 3y ago
    Well it is apparent that so many people got confused (me included) that it deservedly became part of the conversation.
• ada1981 3y ago
  It should be 3MM
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