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The title would then say “3M’s accounts” to denote ownership.
by hnlmorg 1y ago
The title would then say “3M’s accounts” to denote ownership.
- JumpCrisscross 1y agoWould note that 3M is an unconventional was of representing 3mm or 3mn.
- cf100clunk 1y agoI got downvoted due to someone's unconventional reading. You win some, you lose some.
- righthand 1y agoYou’re downvoted because you’ve strongly indicated you didn’t read the article.
- cf100clunk 1y agoThat's an unwarranted assumption.
- righthand 1y agoAnd your comment is an unwarranted assumption of the article and the discussion around it. See?
- hnlmorg 1y agoI’ve never seen ‘mm’ nor ‘mn’ used in British English, where ‘m’ is a common abbreviation for “million”. But this might be a localisation. Wikipedia does recognise ‘m’ as an abbreviation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,000,000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,000,000 It’s definitely open to confusion but generally if you already known that abbreviation exists then one can usually deduce how to interpret that abbreviation from the context of the sentence. In this case, it’s a financial headline so I assumed it was “million”.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Wikipedia does recognise ‘m’ as an abbreviation The lower-case m is used in British English. Upper case M can be used, but it’s unnecessarily ambiguous and close to wrong in American English.
- hnlmorg 1y agoHN plays shenanigans with the capitalisations in headings.
- dboreham 1y agoMillimeters or mili-newtons? Wait...that'd be mN. <confused> Obviously M is the conventional way to denote 10^6.