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EwanToo on May 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mark Zuckerberg sells 30.2 million shares of $FB c...

I'm not sure it is.

MM is semi-standard English, at least in the US, because M can be confused with the M used for one thousand.

But B doesn't get confused with anything, and I've never seen BB written anywhere before this..

stephengillie on May 24, 2012 [–]

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