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You mean $100B in cash.

Yes - it's obvious that there are bad practices at work here - in particular no strict static analysis. I agree there's little excuse for not adding machine processes that could have helped.

But adding human processes costs time and agility, and as you point out, money cannot replace these.




British million = American billion = 10^9

MM is used to denote an American million = 10^6


Are you sure? The old 'British Billion' was 10^12, but even that is rarely used any more. I've never seen an 'M' suffix used to mean anything other than 10^6.


M is widely used as "thousand" in specialized contexts like "CPM" and "RPM" within the advertising/accounting space.


I don't think that's right. 10^6 is a million in both languages.

10^9 used to be a milliard in British English but is no longer used. It is now referred to as a billion.

10^12 used to be a billion in British English but is now referred to as a trillion.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ explains it all quite nicely.




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