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Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by qeternity on Friday October 21, 2022 @05:30AM (#33286201)
Well you're gonna be really disappointed to find out lots of people do use "mm" particularly in finance, and that Roman numerals have been used far longer than the SI system has existed.

Just because you don't use them, or aren't aware they are used, does not make it unnecessary.

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Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by programmer_dude on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:33AM (#33287332)
By unnecessary I meant the second M in MM is redundant (since M = Mega = 1e6 is enough). And yes I am disappointed, probably just as much as people's use of imperial units :)

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>Roman numerals have been used far longer than the SI system has existed

Indeed it has. But has its use as a suffix existed for just as long? BTW I am also disappointed that the people still use Roman numerals :) (also completely unnecessary, the Indo-Arabic number system is "better").

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