[Ads-l] Transmission rates and related goodies

[Dan Goncharoff]

Indeed. Also, I have seen B, BB (parallel to MM, although MM means a
thousand thousand), and BN all used for billion.

DanG

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
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> > MM, which clearly means million
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> "Clearly" in financial contexts, you mean?
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