Thousands and millions..

[k3am]

Another non-important poll - how do you reference thousands and millions?

A) k/M
B) M/MM

I'm annoyed at work. 

[sandandsea]

A

[deadwing]

I understand (and use) the first option.

I'm struggling to understand the second option. M represents 1000 in Roman numerals. But MM? Where does that come from? I guess it's supposed to be 1000 x l000, but that then takes it away from my Roman numerals theory...

[emilyinchile]

It depends on if I'm writing in English or Spanish. The first option in English, second in Spanish. I don't know if that's relevant to your work situation.

[Patsy Baloney]

Ope, thought this was about hundreds and thousands and was just here to say sprinkles.

[k3am]

I should have added a "both" option.

Because I work for a stupid company that stupidly uses M/MM because we are stupid, and have had to convert to that, but I have to remember to use k/M when I email clients, because NO ONE WITH ANY SHRED OF SANITY USES M/MM, but frequently forget and then look stupid there too.

deadwing, I have no idea why M/MM is a thing.

[mala]

Mar 6, 2024 18:55:27 GMT -5 Patsy Baloney said:

Ope, thought this was about hundreds and thousands and was just here to say sprinkles.

Right. I was ready to weigh in on "hundreds of thousands" vs "nonpareils" vs "sprinkles" and the tangential "sprinkles" vs "jimmies" debate.

[deadwing]

Mar 6, 2024 19:00:35 GMT -5 k3am said:

I should have added a "both" option.

Because I work for a stupid company that stupidly uses M/MM because we are stupid, and have had to convert to that, but I have to remember to use k/M when I email clients, because NO ONE WITH ANY SHRED OF SANITY USES M/MM, but frequently forget and then look stupid there too.

deadwing, I have no idea why M/MM is a thing.

This would drive me up the wall. I get very distracted by abbreviations and acronyms that I don't understand.

[TR]

SS - I think I do k and MM. Like I’d say $5k or $5MM. I don’t know why I don’t do $5M

[hbomdiggity]

A and only A.

[thebreakfastclub]

From my experience, people who were in consulting use the M/MM designation.

[silvercrayon]

My work uses M/MM, so that's what I use.

[Jalapeñomel]

10^5, 10^6

[k3am]

Mar 6, 2024 19:30:23 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

10^5, 10^6

I'm dead. You are smarter than me. DD is hitting exponentials in math and we've now reached the point where I admit that I am not smarter than a fifth grader. 

[basilosaurus]

Mar 6, 2024 18:50:37 GMT -5 emilyinchile said:

It depends on if I'm writing in English or Spanish. The first option in English, second in Spanish. I don't know if that's relevant to your work situation.

Oh, that makes sense. I was trying to think where M/MM came from, but Latin/Spanish, yeah, I can see that. I'd also buy M*M.

$1 in Vietnamese dong is about 25,000. Looking at menu prices really threw me because they often list all the zeros on menus. I don't care if it's k or M or MM, use wingdings for all I care. I just can't handle all those zeroes.

[Jalapeñomel]

Mar 6, 2024 19:31:54 GMT -5 k3am said:

Mar 6, 2024 19:30:23 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

10^5, 10^6

I'm dead. You are smarter than me. DD is hitting exponentials in math and we've now reached the point where I admit that I am not smarter than a fifth grader. 

To be fair, that’s not exactly right either but you get the gist. 🤣

[sent]

I've been using an uppercase K this whole time.

I also don't send this abbreviation to anyone who would care that TIL it's a lowercase K.

[4speedy]

Mar 6, 2024 18:55:27 GMT -5 Patsy Baloney said:

Ope, thought this was about hundreds and thousands and was just here to say sprinkles.

Me too

[gerberdaisy]

I work in the banking industry and its only M and MM, never K

[candreco]

Mar 6, 2024 23:28:01 GMT -5 sent said:

I've been using an uppercase K this whole time.

I also don't send this abbreviation to anyone who would care that TIL it's a lowercase K.

Federal budgets here, we use uppercase K and M.  

[k3am]

Mar 7, 2024 7:36:02 GMT -5 gerberdaisy said:

I work in the banking industry and its only M and MM, never K

The banking industry is dumb. 

Signed, 
Fellow colleague. 

[k3am]

Mar 6, 2024 23:28:01 GMT -5 sent said:

I've been using an uppercase K this whole time.

I also don't send this abbreviation to anyone who would care that TIL it's a lowercase K.

My clients are split on whether the "k" should be big or little. But they unanimously agree it's not M/MM.

[CrazyLucky]

Special snowflake. In real life I write k and M. At work, I follow work's convention, which is often M and MM.

[mcsangel2]

OMG this is ridiculous. How is this not totally standardized in US business & finance??

Also, sprinkles.

[basilosaurus]

I knew about sprinkles vs jimmies, but thousands and millions is brand new to me. Why use 5 syllables when 2 alternatives have only 2.

[cereal K]

I use k/M now, and almost exclusively in referencing dollars.

I came up in manufacturing where we used M/MM, both for production output in pounds and cases, but then also for dollars.

[meanie]

SS - I work at in investment services and we do K/MM

[jlt19]

“Personally” I use k and write out million. I’m not writing that very often though.

Work is a mess. We’re global and utilize 4 currencies on the regular. I have to take what people all across the globe tell me and put into our pricing system.

Many countries use a comma where we use a period. Some of the code is written to imply decimals, some is not. Then of course there’s the conversions, but not when pricing via bps is involved.

I’ve learned to write everything in not only numerical form but also written or we could have a hell of a mess on our hands.

[lolalolalola]

We use k and MM