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		tastyfreeze on Feb 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches I first read that as 2.3 millimeter people... who busted out the shrink ray?

Simon_says on Feb 7, 2018 [–]

I did too. mm is millimeter. MM is million. It comes from the Roman numeral M, so it has to be capitalized.

corobo on Feb 7, 2018 | [–]

People can recognize context though. You are not the Google calculator

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