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Re:Pentagon Has No Idea Where $800M Went by wavefunction on Thursday November 05, 2015 @06:06AM (#10512706)
How is adding non-existent letters any form of abbreviation?

That's all I was stating.

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Re:Pentagon Has No Idea Where $800M Went by anamexis on Thursday November 05, 2015 @03:41PM (#10515977)
Because it is a shorter form of the word it abbreviates. 'mm' is shorter than 'millions'.
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