engineers tend to interpret it as million * million = terra 10^6 * 10^6 = 10^12 because the suffix m or M is associated with million or 10^6 in the inte

engineers tend to interpret it as million * million = terra 10^6 * 10^6 = 10^12 because the suffix m or M is associated with million or 10^6 in the international system of units.