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> Say $2MM in tickets are sold

what do you think about the format: [scalar] [si-prefix] [unit]

2 megadollars? Sure, it still beats what my reading voice calls "mumums"

yea, if we can have mebibytes on our home turf, we should be able to have megadollars in meatspace

Honestly, I prefer it. But for one reason or another, MM is the accepted suffix when dealing with money (it comes from mille in latin meaning thousand, not million.)

thx

any idea how it came to prominence?

i guess i has something to do with distancing the field from natural sciences.

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