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		omh on Feb 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Has goto fail been fixed yet? 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.

rdl on Feb 25, 2014 [–]

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

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