Comment by brianleb
2 years ago
Actually, I believe what you want is 3mm, which I believe they use in accounting. Lowercase m in this instance would stand for milli-, as in thousand. So 3mm would be 3 thousand thousand. 3M is technically correct, though confusing in this specific case. Capital M would indicate Mega, as in the progression from kilobit to megabit to gigabit.
3MM is three million, for US accountants and thus engineers writing docs for VPs. 3mm is three millimeters.
Gamers just write it as 3kk. (PS: never seen MM used as a "million" even in my two decades on the internet)
Eh... Haven't seen anyone using 3kk to abbreviate 3M. 3M is common and B for billion. Those are also used in many games to shorten currencies.
This seems to be a (IRL) cultural thing - the vast majority of people I play EVE with use k/m/b/t, but a small percent does use k/kk/kkk
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3mm hotel keycard form factor.
Interesting, I'd seen it as "MM", as in "Thousand Thousand" in Roman numerals.
Of course lowercase "mm" is most recognizable as millimeter, so that would be confusing in a different way.