1,000,000

1,000,000 (1000000, one million or one thousand thousand or million or thousand thousand for short) is a natural number between 999,999 and 1,000,001. The name is derived from Italian, where  was 1,000, and 1,000,000 became a "milione", as "a large thousand".

Overview

In scientific notation, the number is written as 106. Physical quantities can also be explained using the SI prefix  when using SI units. For example, 1 megawatt is 1,000,000 watts (W).

The word "million" is common to both the short-scale and long-scale numbering systems, unlike the larger numbers, which have different names in the two systems.

The million is sometimes used in English as a metaphor for a very large number, as in "Never in a million years" and "You're one in a million", or as hyperbole, as in "I have walked a million miles".

Examples

 A millionaire is someone who owns at least one million or more units of currency
 In computer science a megabyte is equal to a million bytes, or 1,048,576 (1,0242).
 In measurement, there are a million millimeters in a kilometer. There are a million meters in a megameter. (A person who travels completely around earth's equator travels 40 megameters). Also, the speed of light travels a million kilometers in around 3 seconds
 Il Milione is the title of Marco Polo's narration of his travels in China. The name is supposed to come from Polo's nickname after his tales of riches and multitudes.

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