re: Recently I've noticed a lot of people putting the dollar sign after the number

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Sure, but that is not the use these days at all.

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I know, I'm trying to say that the way it's used is based on a piss-poor decision made by someone long ago. Like what was the thought process?

"Hey, we write a lot of big numbers, let's knock off 3 digits and replace with an M for thousands. Get it? Like the Romans? I'm a fricking genius."


Next day:

"Hey, genius, I'd like to abbreviate millions now."

"frick."