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To: rb22982

“Frequently will see MM for million (thousand, thousand)”

Frequently? Roman numeral MM is a bit archaic. :-) Nowadays M is common practice for million with K commonly used for 1000.


25 posted on 03/31/2018 6:54:56 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

Not on trading desks all over the USA. And it is used by the Wall Street Journal. I worked on the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange, was head of the Equity Desk and traded at exchanges all over the world.


28 posted on 03/31/2018 6:57:22 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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To: plain talk

/shrug see it in business finance a lot still at least


41 posted on 03/31/2018 7:18:44 PM PDT by rb22982
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To: plain talk
Frequently? Roman numeral MM is a bit archaic. :-) Nowadays M is common practice for million with K commonly used for 1000.

The government has a handy table:

https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/prefixes

However, the real estate industry is a bit behind the times. They will use M for a thousand feet (meaning square feet — another sloppiness) and MM for a million. Supposedly, it's influenced by Roman numerals, where M means thousand. But MM in Roman numerals means two thousand, not a thousand thousand.

89 posted on 04/02/2018 5:09:38 PM PDT by cynwoody
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