Comment by palmotea

Comment by palmotea 2 days ago

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>> 100M+ is a bit more than i would expect for an image format. have i not been paying attention

> So at least if GP was talking about libjxl "100K+" would be more accurate.

M can mean thousands and I think it's common to use it used that way in finance and finance-adjacent areas: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/A...:

> A. You’ve identified two commonly used conventions in finance, one derived from Greek and the other from Latin, but neither one is standard.

Starting with the second convention, M is used for amounts in the thousands and MM for amounts in the millions (usually without a space between the number and the abbreviation—e.g., $150M for $150,000 and $150MM for $150 million). This convention overlaps with the conventions for writing roman numerals, according to which a thousand is represented by M (from mille, the Latin word for “thousand”). Any similarity with roman numerals ends there, however, because MM in roman numerals means two thousand, not a thousand thousands, or one million, as in financial contexts...

https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stan...:

> An expense of $60,000 could be written as $60M. Internet advertisers are familiar with CPM which is the cost per thousand impressions.

> The letter k is also used represent one thousand. For example, an annual salary of $60,000 might appear as $60k instead of $60M.

WheatMillington 2 days ago

I assume this is regional... I work in accounting and finance in New Zealand (generally following ordinary Western/Commonwealth standards) and I've never heard of using M for thousands. If I used that I would confuse the hell out of everyone around me.

  • mkaic 2 days ago

    "It's... a regional dialect."

    "What region?"

    "Er, upstate New York."

    "Really. Well, I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase '100M' to mean '100 thousand'"

    "Oh, no, not in Utica. It's an Albany expression."

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dataflow 2 days ago

Okay, but this is... not finance? And the article itself wrote 100K. Rewriting that as 100M does nobody a favor.

sealeck 2 days ago

I don't think many (if any) programmers would imagine 100M lines of code to mean 100,000 lines of code and not 1,000,000...

uselesswords 2 days ago

Technically right is the worst kind of right

  • palmotea a day ago

    I'm surprised at the negative reaction to having it pointed out that the OP may not be wrong, just using a dialect.