Million

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Artistic depiction of the well-known, large, round number emblazoned in gold.

One million (1,000,000), or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001.

In scientific notation, it is written as 10⁶.Physical quantities can also be expressed using the SI prefix mega, when dealing with SI units. For example, 1 megawatt equals 1 000 000 watts.

The million is sometimes used in the English language as a metaphor for a very large number, as in "Never in a million years" and "You're one in a million", or a hyperbole, as in "I've walked a million miles".Hence, a millionaire is a rich person, no matter the actual currency or the exact quantity.Il Milione is the title of Marco Polo's narration of his travel to China.The name is supposed to come from Polo's nickname after his tales of riches and multitudes.

The word "million" is common to the short scale and long scale numbering systems (and also to the proposed Rowlett numbering system), unlike the larger numbers, which have different names in the two systems.

The name is derived from Italian, where milla was 1,000, and 1,000,000 became millione, "a large thousand".

The word million

In standard English, it is pronounced with an l-sound followed by a y-glide. However, as other languages use a fully palatalized 'l' in this word (such as Italian spells by 'gl'), some English-speakers have picked up this pronunciation, which does not occur elsewhere in the English language but in words of this model.

This word is the most common of words ending in -lion, and the fact that in English it does not have a distinct pronunciation due to its double 'll' causes spelling confusion with 'vermilion', 'pavilion', etc.

See also

• Orders of magnitude (numbers) to help compare dimensionless numbers between 1 000 000 and 10 000 000 (10⁶ and 10⁷).

Selected 7-digit numbers (1000000 - 9999999)

• 1046527 - Carol number
• 1048576 = 2²⁰ (power of two), 2116-gonal number, an 8740-gonal number and a 174764-gonal number, the number of bytes in a mebibyte, the number of kibibytes in a gibibyte, and so on.
• 1048976 - Leyland number
• 1050623 - Kynea number
• 1058576 - Leyland number
• 1084051 - Keith number
• 1089270 - harmonic divisor number
• 1111111 - repunit
• 1136689 - Pell number, Markov number
• 1234567 - Smarandche consecutive number (base 10 digits are in numerical order)
• 1278818 - Markov number
• 1342269 - Fibonacci number
• 1346269 - Markov number
• 1421280 - harmonic divisor number
• 1441440 - colossally abundant number
• 1441889 - Markov number
• 1539720 - harmonic divisor number
• 1563372 - Wedderburn-Etherington number
• 1594323 = 3¹³
• 1596520 - Leyland number
• 1647086 - Leyland number
• 1679616 = 6⁸
• 1686049 - Markov number
• 1771561 = 11⁶ = 1331², also, Commander Spock's estimate for the tribble population in the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles"
• 1941760 - Leyland number
• 1953125 = 5⁹
• 2012174 - Leyland number
• 2012674 - Markov number
• 2097152 = 2²¹, power of two
• 2097593 - Leyland number
• 2124679 - Wolstenholme prime
• 2178309 - Fibonacci number
• 2222222 - repdigit
• 2356779 - Motzkin number
• 2423525 - Markov number
• 2674440 - Catalan number
• 2744210 - Pell number
• 2796203 - Wagstaff prime
• 2922509 - Markov number
• 3263442 - product of the first five terms of Sylvester's sequence
• 3263443 - sixth term of Sylvester's sequence
• 3276509 - Markov number
• 3301819 - alternating factorial
• 3333333 - repdigit
• 3524578 - Fibonacci number, Markov number
• 3626149 - Wedderburn-Etherington number
• 3628800 = 10!
• 4037913 - sum of the first ten factorials
• 4190207 - Carol number
• 4194304 = 2²², power of two
• 4194788 - Leyland number
• 4198399 - Kynea number
• 4208945 - Leyland number
• 4213597 - Bell number
• 4400489 - Markov number
• 4444444 - repdigit
• 4561111 - telephone number of the White House (202 area code)
• 4782969 = 3¹⁴
• 4785713 - Leyland number
• 4826809 = 13⁶
• 5555555 - repdigit
• 5702887 - Fibonacci number
• 5764801 = 7⁸
• 6000000 - The standard estimate of persons of Jewish origin murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Holocaust.
• 6536382 - Motzkin number
• 6625109 - Pell number, Markov number
• 6666666 - repdigit
• 7365000 - Pennsylvania 6-5000, old style phone number of the Pennsylvania Hotel and name of a popular song
• 7453378 - Markov number
• 7777777 - repdigit
• 7861953 - Leyland number
• 7913837 - Keith number
• 8000000 - Used to represent infinity in Japanese mythology
• 8388608 = 2²³, power of two
• 8389137 - Leyland number
• 8399329 - Markov number
• 8436379 - Wedderburn-Etherington number
• 8675309 - Phone number in the popular song from 1981 titled 867-5309/Jenny by Tommy Tutone. This is also a prime number.
• 8888888 - repdigit
• 8946176 - self-descriptive number in base 8
• 9227465 - Fibonacci number, Markov number
• 9369319 - Newman-Shanks-Williams prime
• 9647009 - Markov number
• 9694845 - Catalan number
• 9765625 = 5¹⁰
• 9865625 - Leyland number
• 9999999 - repdigit

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