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>>mef+(OP)
I know it is pedantic, but could someone please enlighten me as to where does MM means millions?

It's so easy to stick to international units, folks. Please. PLEASE!

>>luizfz+Okc
M is 1,000 in Roman numerals. MM is short for M*M, so 1,000 * 1,000 = 1,000,000 or MM.

The M lives on in languages like Spanish where the word mil means one thousand.

>>Crypto+cIc
This somewhat misses the point of my comment, tough. The post was written in English, so one should stick to how English represents millions.

Based on that, I can say `1.000.000` is equal to MM because Brazil uses `.` to separate groups of 3 digits, and `,` to separate integer and decimal parts.

My point is to stick to using the units the language you're writing on uses.

Btw, thanks for explaining the origin of MM! I definitely didn't know that.

>>luizfz+mKc
mm as an abbreviation is still the standard in finance, so still very relevant in English

>>Crypto+zGd
engineers tend to interpret it as

   million * million = terra
   10^6 * 10^6 = 10^12

because the suffix m or M is associated with million or 10^6 in the international system of units.