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To: Errant

“US Government Announces it Will Sell $25m Worth of Silk Road Bitcoins”

I assume the writer means $25MM (twenty-five million) rather than $25M (twenty-five thousand).

I’m increasingly seeing careless writers use M for MM in stories.


10 posted on 01/17/2014 5:41:55 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

K is the symbol for thousand, not M.


11 posted on 01/17/2014 5:43:52 AM PST by nanetteclaret (Unreconstructed "Elderly Kooky Type" Catholic Texan)
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