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I hope you got paid $150mm to create that.
by josh33 13y ago
I hope you got paid $150mm to create that.
- fletchowns 13y agoWhy do I always see people using lowercase "mm" to abbreviate million? That doesn't make any sense to me.
- ieatdots 13y agoRoman number M = 1 thousand 1 thousand 1 thousands = 1 million
- fletchowns 13y agoExactly, capital M
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- kachnuv_ocasek 13y agoBut, then that would be 150 * 2000 = 300,000.
- lowkeykiwi 13y agoExactly. 1 million in Roman numerals is M with a bar over the top of it.
- wizzard 13y agoYes. If we're talking Roman numerals, MM would be 2000, just like XX is 20 -- not 100. This notation makes no sense to me either.
- nilkn 13y agoI've always seen k used to represent one thousand in dollar amounts, so I've never interpreted M as being a Roman numeral but simply as standing for "million." Disclaimer: I've been in the US my whole life.
- Noughmad 13y agoWe don't use Roman numerals for thousands, why should we do so for millions? The right way is obviously using metric prefixes, so 1k$, 1M$ and 1G$. And don't forget that 'cents' is short for 'centidollars'.
- DanBC 13y agom is 1,000. mm is m * m or 1000 * 1000, which is 1,000,000
- fletchowns 13y agoMM, sure. mm, however, is millimeters.
- wtvanhest 13y agoits done in finance sometimes and the thought behind it is m = 1000, so multiply 1000 by 1000 and you get 1,000,000. Personally I hate that notation and use capital M whenever given the opportunity. I feel like it used to show superiority or present another barrier to people outside of finance looking in. a millimeter is = to 1000 micrometers.
- anonymoushn 13y ago150 mega-megadollars??
- bcoates 13y agoDoubling to indicate a plural initialism, like "pp 3-7" for "pages 3-7" or "EE. UU." for "Estados Unidos".
- zalzane 13y agoyou know how a few years back it became popular to say "kk" in online games instead of "k" or "okay" I suspect people use MM/mm for the same reason, some guy just made a typo one day and it caught on.
- nodata 13y agokk=okay, cool
- jjoe 13y agoMille is Latin for one thousand. It's still heavily used in French and perhaps as much in Italian.
- ksrm 13y agoI have literally only ever seen this on HN. (from the UK where m = million)
- mkramlich 13y agolooks like a hybrid of USD and millimeters