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by jasone 1289 days ago
No, MM is an abject abuse of Roman numerals (which means 2,000), as near as I can tell thanks to a nomenclature distortion originally involving CPM (cost per thousand impressions). I can't get over how messed up MM=million is.
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"mm" is frequently used in finance and probably predates the existence of CPM