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Re:Ask HN: What skills will be useful during an upcoming rec... by dharmon on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:02PM (#22658620)
M is "thousand". MM is "thousand thousand", which is "million", and a fairly common shorthand. I haven't really seen it, but its pretty clear then that MMM is meant to be "thousand thousand thousand", i.e., billion.
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Re:Ask HN: What skills will be useful during an upcoming rec... by pb7 on Sunday March 22, 2020 @11:08PM (#22660904)
You could have also written it as "$10B" and 100% of people would have understood what you're talking about without an explanation.

Why didn't you write 500M cars as well? Could it be that it's a stupid convention?

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