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Re:Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windo... by kchoudhu on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @12:24PM (#9226599)
m = 1000, or m = 1000000?

(Sorry, my definition of those suffixes has been forever muddled by working in finance :( )

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Re:Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windo... by hobarrera on Friday March 20, 2015 @11:21AM (#9238242)
I'm guessing he meant "M". "k" is usually described to count thousands. [1] I'm curious, in what country do you live that finance uses different prefixes?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...

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Re:Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windo... by kchoudhu on Friday March 20, 2015 @12:59PM (#9238827)
The US -- have worked at a couple of banks so far, and M for thousand and MM for million have been constants.
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Re:Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windo... by jayrox on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @12:59PM (#9226900)
1,000,000
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