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Pretty common in finance across the board to use consistent units and to not use decimals. So in this case the following sentences mention $10 million, you would not want to say $0.10 billion. It depends on whats being presented of course but in large numbers like these, decimals make it harder to read.


This! Also because people regularly screw up units(forgetting to convert, etc), so if you keep them all the same, it's a touch harder to screw up.




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