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I saw a leading segment on NOVA Science Now on PBS about the red 1966 Volvo P1800 owned by the NY former school teacher OO that he's driven 2.7+ mm miles*, & is in the Guinness Book for it. Look for it on your local PBS channel.
Yup - that's 27 times turned over on it's 5 digit odometer like our 914s have! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) It was also featured in Hemmings Sports & Exotics last year IIRC. Interesting but not an in depth car guy/gal coverage, but nice to see old cars getting some wider "cred"! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) *EDIT: The abbreviation above of "mm" or "MM" is from Roman Numerals for 1000x1000 = 1,000,000 or million. So that's 2,700,000+ miles as of the show, 2,500,000+ miles as of the HS&E article linked below. |
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TMI.... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California ![]() ![]() |
mm = abbrev. for million used for dollars in our spreadsheets, financial analysis, etc. for 40+ years. News journalists tend to use M instead, so use whichever works in your mind! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) However, I understand your confusion coming from the land of mm's! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif) PS - It's actually & technically "MM" - from Roman Numerals for 1000x1000, but IMHO & that of most doing such financials & proformas use lower case so it doesn't visually overwhelm the data presentation. Sorry to corn-fuse the readers out there! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) |
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mm = abbrev. for million used for dollars in our spreadsheets, financial analysis, etc. for 40+ years. News journalists tend to use M instead, so use whichever works in your mind! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) However, I understand your confusion coming from the land of mm's! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif) PS - It's actually & technically "MM" - from Roman Numerals for 1000x1000, but IMHO & that of most doing such financials & proformas use lower case so it doesn't visually overwhelm the data presentation. Sorry to corn-fuse the readers out there! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) It may be common to money folks but to an engineer two lowercase ms are always going to read a thousandth of a meter. The clearest abbreviation for million would be mega since m is problematic for numerous reasons mille miglia is a thousand miles even though Mille sounds to us in the states as million. |
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TMI.... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California ![]() ![]() |
mm = abbrev. for million used for dollars in our spreadsheets, financial analysis, etc. for 40+ years. News journalists tend to use M instead, so use whichever works in your mind! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) However, I understand your confusion coming from the land of mm's! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif) PS - It's actually & technically "MM" - from Roman Numerals for 1000x1000, but IMHO & that of most doing such financials & proformas use lower case so it doesn't visually overwhelm the data presentation. Sorry to corn-fuse the readers out there! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) It may be common to money folks but to an engineer two lowercase ms are always going to read a thousandth of a meter. The clearest abbreviation for million would be mega since m is problematic for numerous reasons mille miglia is a thousand miles even though Mille sounds to us in the states as million. 2,700,000 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) |
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