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Re:What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by... by samoa42 on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:44AM (#20985223)
MM=B?
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Re:What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by... by advisedwang on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:50AM (#20985285)
In the financial world MM is used to mean million.
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Re:What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by... by alasdair_ on Monday September 16, 2019 @12:29PM (#20985758)
M is 1000 in roman numerals. MM is one million.
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Re:What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by... by aashishkoirala on Monday September 16, 2019 @12:44PM (#20985923)
I think MM is 2000 in Roman numerals, no?
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Re:What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by... by munk-a on Monday September 16, 2019 @01:40PM (#20986611)
You are technically correct, financial dudes like roman numerals but somewhere in history someone (probably someone reeeeeally powerful) started using MM for million and thus started the trend.

Aside, swiss watches tend to have a watch maker's four on them instead of the more correct IV... and apparently there are a bunch of other variations out there[1]. Though MM is still quite stupid.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Variant_forms

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Re:What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by... by thaumasiotes on Monday September 16, 2019 @08:59PM (#20990144)
I believe the thought behind MM is "a thousand thousand", using the roman numeral as if it were a positional digit.

Not sure how someone got the idea to do that...

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Re:What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by... by ta5436546n4 on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:21PM (#20990618)
Algebraically it makes sense I guess (M.M)
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