Sony Shareholder meeting: TLOU: 19m, GoW: 12m, infamous SS: 6m

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VAMatt said:

Ka-pi96 said:
mm? Does that mean "million million"?

MM refers to a thousand thousand, as M is the Roman numeral for 1000.  MM was the standard way of indicating a million, as far as I knew, until the last decade or so.  I think most people just use a single M now.  I sometimes still use MM though.  

That got changed due to 2 reasons: confusion with millimeter (mm), and the fact that in Roman numerals, that doesn't mean thousand times thousand, but thousand plus thousand, aka 2000. In many regions, that has never caught on in the first place due to these reasons.

A single M is doubly practical: It both denotes Million, but also Mega - the latter use having caught on mostly due to computers (Megabytes (though Mebibytes would be more correct if calculating storage sizes), Megahertz...) and electronics (Megawatt, anyone?)