What is $71mm?

[Muse]

So, I'm reading a newsletter that was mailed to me recently by the local property owner's association and an article mentions that my town spent $1.9m on road repairs from 2009-2020. Yeah, our streets are by and large crumbling, full of potholes. It's my biggest pet peeve about this place (I skate and bike a lot). Voters approve measures marketed to help with infrastructure repairs but the money goes to the General Fund and the city council and mayor (and city manager, I suppose) decide what to do with it. Not much goes to fix the streets.

That aside, in other "articles" in the newsletter they cite numbers like $71mm, $640mm, $1.7mm, etc. What does mm stand for? Millions of dollars? I've never seen that before. I see it Googling, but see no explanation there. What does mm stand for?

 

[lxskllr]

Millimeter. $71 per mm, $640 per mm, $1.7 per mm. That last one's a bargain.

 

[Muse]

Millimeter. $71 per mm, $640 per mm, $1.7 per mm. That last one's a bargain.

yup, mm always means millimeter to me, but $71mm, doesn't compute in my head.

 

[pete6032]

MM is million. The roman numeral M is used to denote one thousand, and MM denotes one thousand thousand (one million).

 

[deadlyapp]

doing it lower case mm is lazy, but double MM generally means millions.

 

[highland145]

Watching 48 hours yesterday, the screen caption said the 40mm pistol the cops found was the murder weapon. What about that?

 

[Muse]

doing it lower case mm is lazy, but double MM generally means millions.

I was confused. Earlier in the circular they had $1.9m, later things like $640mm and $71mm.

 

[herm0016]

We use MM also. mmcf or million cubic feet of natural gas.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Watching 48 hours yesterday, the screen caption said the 40mm pistol the cops found was the murder weapon. What about that?

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!

 

[sdifox]

Million Million duh.

 

[herm0016]

Watching 48 hours yesterday, the screen caption said the 40mm pistol the cops found was the murder weapon. What about that?

that would certainly pack a punch!

there is a 40 mm grenade launcher.

 

[Muse]

Million Million duh.

Yeah, it is kinda dumb, huh? Just stupid. Guess that's why I never saw it before. IMO, Roman numerals are very archaic and people shouldn't use them. I often have to brush up on them to read them. I hate it when they do that in movie credits. They stopped doing that, at least as much as they used to.

 

[sandorski]

I'm with you. Screw Planet X!!

 

[Fritzo]

Million Million duh.

Correct. You have to hold your pinky up to your lip when you say it too.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

So, I'm reading a newsletter that was mailed to me recently by the local property owner's association and an article mentions that my town spent $1.9m on road repairs from 2009-2020. Yeah, our streets are by and large crumbling, full of potholes. It's my biggest pet peeve about this place (I skate and bike a lot). Voters approve measures marketed to help with infrastructure repairs but the money goes to the General Fund and the city council and mayor (and city manager, I suppose) decide what to do with it. Not much goes to fix the streets.

That aside, in other "articles" in the newsletter they cite numbers like $71mm, $640mm, $1.7mm, etc. What does mm stand for? Millions of dollars? I've never seen that before. I see it Googling, but see no explanation there. What does mm stand for?

It means it is time for you to move to a less stupid place.

 

[Jon-T]

Watching 48 hours yesterday, the screen caption said the 40mm pistol the cops found was the murder weapon. What about that?

Odd are it was a 40mm Bofors antiaircraft gun. Becoming the weapon of choice for Swedes doing drive bys.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!

Unfortunately not even that, WH 40k bolters are .75 to 1 caliber weapons (1 for the heavy bolters).. a 40mm round would be like 1.57 caliber which would be rather large even for a space marine. Maybe something rather absurd mounted to a dreadnaught or above...

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Unfortunately not even that, WH 40k bolters are .75 to 1 caliber weapons (1 for the heavy bolters).. a 40mm round would be like 1.57 caliber which would be rather large even for a space marine. Maybe something rather absurd mounted to a dreadnaught or above...

Yeah I caught that after the post 40.0 caliber would be like a 1,000mm cannon.

 

[highland145]

Yeah I caught that after the post 40.0 caliber would be like a 1,000mm cannon.

~3'...is that wrong?

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's funny how crumbling roads is practically a universal thing. We pay so many damn taxes and they still can't fix the roads properly. Federal and provincial income tax, property tax, gas tax etc Then add vehicle registration fees and all that stuff not to mention the money that they get from various fines like parking tickets or traffic violations etc. those are all things that partially goes towards roads and they still can't get it right!

I've seen "kk" used to mean million but never seen mm. ex: 100k is 100 grand, 100kk is 100 million and 100kkk is 100 billion. People avoid using the billion notation though, because of reasons.

 

[Muse]

There's no good reason for the terrible roads here. The city is very good at extracting tax money from its residents. It doesn't freeze here, there's no ice on the roads, they don't salt them. It should be pretty simple to repave if they'd allocate the funds. 1.9 million in 11 years is absurd. If you go to San Diego, the roads are smooth. Around here even the freeways have major potholes. When driving them I try to watch for them and swerve to miss them so as not to ruin my shocks. CA has a 60 billion dollar surplus this year and they are wondering what to do with it.

They repaved my street around 20-25 years ago but I think the company they contracted to do the work cheaped out because the street has deteriorated so quickly. I figure there's some way they cheaped out, saving them expense in materials at the expense of the quality of the asphalt, causing premature deterioration. It's awful. When I ride my bike leaving the house I go on the sidewalk for one block because the street is so bad. Once one block away, it improves and I get in the street. And my street is far from the worst. I've seen streets in this town that for years have looked like a war zone they are so trashed.

 

[Muse]

It means it is time for you to move to a less stupid place.

TBH, I'm starting to believe that the whole damn country is ultra stupid. I suppose some places are OK, but mostly it's not like that. Then there are the issues you don't find out about until you move there. And there's the fact that OK today doesn't mean OK in a few years. And of course, there's the bad neighbor factor you can't anticipate.

Edit: Global warming, earthquake, Tsunami, volcanic eruption, hurricane, pandemic ...

 

[Spacehead]

$1.9m

That i've seen before

$71mm, $640mm, $1.7mm, etc.

I've never seen that written out in an article that way in my life. I'd be confused too.

 

[brianmanahan]

i think only accountants use mm these days

 

[BarkingGhostar]

TBH, I'm starting to believe that the whole damn country is ultra stupid. I suppose some places are OK, but mostly it's not like that. Then there are the issues you don't find out about until you move there. And there's the fact that OK today doesn't mean OK in a few years. And of course, there's the bad neighbor factor you can't anticipate.

Edit: Global warming, earthquake, Tsunami, volcanic eruption, hurricane, pandemic ...

And then is the never ending march toward Idiocracy, too.