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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  1351 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: US Job Openings Rise: A story in three acts

You’re right that there’s a public aversion to it. But business speak isn’t very conducive to scientific notation either, you speak to the base unit you typically produce/measure in as that’s what’s more “meaningful”.

Source: kleinbl00 but also literally me, who uses the “MM” abbreviation on axis more often than I would care to admit.