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Comment by rescbr

2 years ago

The finance people that I know uses K for thousands and MM for million.

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yodon  2 years ago

Tech and science use K for thousand and M for million.

Using K and MM in finance reduces the odds of an incorrect interpretation of a single M.

  • Moru  2 years ago

    Sweden faint memory of using ' and " for accounting. 1' is 1 000, 1" is 1 000 000. Or something like that, didn't spend much time on it.

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