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eli on Jan 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I Screwed Yasser Arafat out of $2mm (and lost ...

Well, you would never say "$2M" to mean $2,000, so either one works and it's really just a matter of house style.

samatman on Jan 24, 2011 [–]

If you are ordering a manufactured good, however, 2M definitely means 2000. There was some hilarity in ordering the first round of MakerBeam parts arising from this; we thought we were going to be getting 2 meter long beams, for a panicked minute.

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