Take the 2-minute tour ×  I am trying to describe the desired
formatting for numbers in a given document. For rounded monetary
quantities over a million this would be dollar sign, arabic
numeral, unit (e.g. 3,000,000 dollars would be written as $3
million).  Is there a term that describes this format?
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accepted  Speaking as a computer programmer, we tend to call
$3,000,000.00 "accounting format."  In this case, however ($3
million), we tend to just call it "million format"  As in,
"could you put these account totals in million format?"  Same
goes for billion and trillion, but nothing less than a million.
share|improve this answer  I do not think there is a term that
describes the format you describe. However, I would describe it
as a hybrid/combination of words and numerals. There are
probably scores of web sites and style guides that suggest how
best to combine words, numerals, and symbols for various
currencies (British pounds, Euros, dollars, y