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In finance, MM is a shorthand for millions: https://www.orsurety.com/blog/is-it-m-for-thousand-and-mm-fo...

Weird to call it a shorthand when M means the same thing ;)

English wasn't always the lingua franca

But France has been on metric for a long time.

Yeah, but they counted money for even longer time

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