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MM? Using roman numerals... Seriously, I do value good notation, but for this particular case, juxtaposition, we do use it for multiplication - in algebra, where it's easy to find the boundary of a number, and variables are always 1 symbol long, so 'xyz' is a product of three values, not a name of one.

Coming back - notation is important, but sometimes it's hard to find "the best" or even "good enough". Newton's primes as symbols of differentiation used alongside with Leibniz' dy/dx, and there is the shortcut for "differentiated by time" as dot on top of the function symbol, so for various cases different notation is more convenient.

MM in Roman numerals is 2,000. There are some Unicode symbols representing one million, but I dunno if they're in the range HN accepts.

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