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Re:Heroku is down for the third time today by marclove on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @06:40PM (#1836441)
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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Re:Heroku is down for the third time today by StavrosK on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @06:41PM (#1836449)
I see, thank you. I prefer the SI, kilodollars, megadollars, etc.
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