-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2010/1/25 Veronique Kessler <vkess...@wikimedia.org>: >> Hello, >> >> Thanks for the comment. The "mm" signifies millions which is the >> amount the timeline is representing, $6 million from 125,000 >> donors globally. If we were to replace it with one "m", that >> would signify only $6 thousand. >> >> See also: >> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_abbreviation_of_million > > "M" before the abbreviation of a unit means 1,000, but on its own > it is far more commonly used to mean 1,000,000. "m" never means > 1,000 - it means 1/1,000 when used with the abbreviation of a unit, > but on its own it usually means 1,000,000 too. I beg to differ, Thomas. It may be an Americanism (I would have to find a source for that), but "M" is generally understood to refer to thousands in currency. It comes directly from the Latin "Mille".
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