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Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ Now Stands to Lose $245 Million After Dropping 60% in Second Weekend Box Office (variety.com)

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

What is MM

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The correct way to abbreviate million.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/fixed-income/mm-millions/

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[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 4 weeks ago

Million Moneys

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, roman numeral bullshit. They can't even do it correct MM is 2000

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Tech uses greek.

K = thousands
M = millions
G = billions. So KB, MB, GB.

Financials use Roman.

M = thousand
MM = a thousand thousand (million)
MMM = a thousand thousand thousand (billion)

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[–] wax@feddit.nu 5 points 4 weeks ago

Mmm Mmm = crash test dummies

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