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m = 1000, or m = 1000000?

(Sorry, my definition of those suffixes has been forever muddled by working in finance :( )

I'm guessing he meant "M". "k" is usually described to count thousands. [1] I'm curious, in what country do you live that finance uses different prefixes?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...

The US -- have worked at a couple of banks so far, and M for thousand and MM for million have been constants.

1,000,000

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