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Marsha Kamish wonders: <<Do any of you know where I can get a list of
how to write or abbreviate things like the word 'million?' I've seen
it mm and MM and mln. Is there any standard documented?>>
Before we can give you a good answer, you'll need to specify what
area you're working in. The Council of Science Editors publishes a
style guide for the sciences in general, most professional
associations such as the American Medical Writers' Association and
American Chemical Society have their own style guide, every journal
in creation seems to have its own style guide, and different
industries have their own standards (e.g., the U.S. military's MILSPEC).
So your answer is: "it depends". <g> Speaking from the scientific
perspective (i.e,. editing for peer-reviewed journals), "million" is
universally abbreviated M as the prefix to a unit (e.g., Mg =
megagrams = 1 metric tonne), or is spelled out in full or as the
numeral (e.g., we performed 1 million bootstrap randomizations, we
counted exactly 2 000 000 bugs).
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