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0 pointsmarclove15y ago0 comments

This came up in a thread a while back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1483667). Bottom line is that "MM" comes from the banking/finance world. In banking, $3M actually means $3,000 and $3MM means $3,000,000.

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StavrosK15y ago

I see, thank you. I prefer the SI, kilodollars, megadollars, etc.

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