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1,000,000 (one million), or one
thousand thousand, is the
natural number following
999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian millione (milione in modern Italian), from mille, "thousand", plus the
augmentative suffix -one.[1]
The meaning of the word "million" is common to 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 the English language as a
metaphor for a very large number, as in "Not in a million years" and "You're one in a million", or a
hyperbole, as in "I've walked a million miles" and "You've asked a million-dollar question".
Even though it is often stressed that
counting to precisely a million would be an exceedingly tedious task due to the time and concentration required, there are many ways to bring the number "down to size" in approximate quantities, ignoring irregularities or packing effects.
Information: Not counting spaces, the text printed on 136 pages of an
Encyclopædia Britannica, or 600 pages of
pulp paperback fiction contains approximately one million characters.
Length: There are one million
millimetres in a
kilometre, and roughly a million sixteenths of an
inch in a
mile (1 sixteenth = 0.0625). A typical
cartire might rotate a million times in a 1,900-kilometre (1,200 mi) trip, while the engine would do several times that number of
revolutions.
Fingers: If the
width of a human finger is 22 mm (7⁄8 in), then a million fingers lined up would cover a distance of 22 km (14 mi). If a person walks at a speed of 4 km/h (2.5 mph), it would take them approximately five and a half hours to reach the end of the fingers.
Area: A square a thousand objects or units on a side contains a million such objects or square units, so a million holes might be found in less than three square yards of window screen, or similarly, in about one half square foot (400–500 cm2) of bed sheet cloth. A city lot 70 by 100 feet is about a million square inches.
Volume: The cube root of one million is one hundred, so a million objects or cubic units is contained in a cube a hundred objects or linear units on a side. A million grains of
table salt or granulated
sugar occupies about 64 mL (2.3 imp fl oz; 2.2 US fl oz), the volume of a cube one hundred grains on a side. One million cubic inches would be the volume of a small room 8+1⁄3 feet long by 8+1⁄3 feet wide by 8+1⁄3 feet high.
Mass: A million cubic millimetres (small droplets) of water would have a volume of one
litre and a mass of one
kilogram. A million millilitres or
cubic centimetres (one
cubic metre) of water has a mass of a million
grams or one
tonne.
Weight: A million 80-milligram (1.2 gr)
honey bees would weigh the same as an 80 kg (180 lb) person.
Landscape: A
pyramidal hill 600 feet (180 m) wide at the base and 100 feet (30 m) high would weigh about a million short tons.
Money: A
USD bill of any denomination weighs 1 gram (0.035 oz). There are 454 grams in a pound. One million USD bills would weigh 1
megagram (1,000 kg; 2,200 lb) or 1 tonne (just over 1
short ton).
Time: A million
seconds, 1 megasecond, is 11.57
days.
1,000,405 = Smallest
triangular number with 7 digits and the 1,414th triangular number
1,002,001 = 10012, palindromic square
1,006,301 = First number of the first pair of
prime quadruplets occurring thirty apart ({1006301, 1006303, 1006307, 1006309} and {1006331, 1006333, 1006337, 1006339})[10]
1,024,000 = Sometimes, the number of bytes in a
megabyte[11]
9,663,500 = Initial number of first century xx00 to xx99 that possesses an identical prime pattern to any century with four or fewer digits: its prime pattern of {9663503, 9663523, 9663527, 9663539, 9663553, 9663581, 9663587} is identical to {5903, 5923, 5927, 5939, 5953, 5981, 5987}[63][64]
^There are no centuries containing more than seventeen primes between 200 and 122,853,771,370,899 inclusive,[48] and none containing more than fifteen between 2,705,000 and 839,296,299 inclusive.[49]
References
^"million". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
^"m". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from
the original on July 6, 2012. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
^"FT makes change to style guide to benefit text-to-speech software". Financial Times. The Financial Times Ltd. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 2024-03-13. The abbreviation of millions is now 'mn' instead of 'm'. One of the main reasons is to benefit text-to-speech software, which reads out the 'm' as metres instead of millions, confusing visually impaired readers. It also comes into line with our style for billion (bn) and trillion (tn).
A request that this article title be changed to 1,000,000-9,999,999 is
under discussion. Please do not move this article until the discussion is closed.
Look up million in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
1,000,000 (one million), or one
thousand thousand, is the
natural number following
999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian millione (milione in modern Italian), from mille, "thousand", plus the
augmentative suffix -one.[1]
The meaning of the word "million" is common to 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 the English language as a
metaphor for a very large number, as in "Not in a million years" and "You're one in a million", or a
hyperbole, as in "I've walked a million miles" and "You've asked a million-dollar question".
Even though it is often stressed that
counting to precisely a million would be an exceedingly tedious task due to the time and concentration required, there are many ways to bring the number "down to size" in approximate quantities, ignoring irregularities or packing effects.
Information: Not counting spaces, the text printed on 136 pages of an
Encyclopædia Britannica, or 600 pages of
pulp paperback fiction contains approximately one million characters.
Length: There are one million
millimetres in a
kilometre, and roughly a million sixteenths of an
inch in a
mile (1 sixteenth = 0.0625). A typical
cartire might rotate a million times in a 1,900-kilometre (1,200 mi) trip, while the engine would do several times that number of
revolutions.
Fingers: If the
width of a human finger is 22 mm (7⁄8 in), then a million fingers lined up would cover a distance of 22 km (14 mi). If a person walks at a speed of 4 km/h (2.5 mph), it would take them approximately five and a half hours to reach the end of the fingers.
Area: A square a thousand objects or units on a side contains a million such objects or square units, so a million holes might be found in less than three square yards of window screen, or similarly, in about one half square foot (400–500 cm2) of bed sheet cloth. A city lot 70 by 100 feet is about a million square inches.
Volume: The cube root of one million is one hundred, so a million objects or cubic units is contained in a cube a hundred objects or linear units on a side. A million grains of
table salt or granulated
sugar occupies about 64 mL (2.3 imp fl oz; 2.2 US fl oz), the volume of a cube one hundred grains on a side. One million cubic inches would be the volume of a small room 8+1⁄3 feet long by 8+1⁄3 feet wide by 8+1⁄3 feet high.
Mass: A million cubic millimetres (small droplets) of water would have a volume of one
litre and a mass of one
kilogram. A million millilitres or
cubic centimetres (one
cubic metre) of water has a mass of a million
grams or one
tonne.
Weight: A million 80-milligram (1.2 gr)
honey bees would weigh the same as an 80 kg (180 lb) person.
Landscape: A
pyramidal hill 600 feet (180 m) wide at the base and 100 feet (30 m) high would weigh about a million short tons.
Money: A
USD bill of any denomination weighs 1 gram (0.035 oz). There are 454 grams in a pound. One million USD bills would weigh 1
megagram (1,000 kg; 2,200 lb) or 1 tonne (just over 1
short ton).
Time: A million
seconds, 1 megasecond, is 11.57
days.
1,000,405 = Smallest
triangular number with 7 digits and the 1,414th triangular number
1,002,001 = 10012, palindromic square
1,006,301 = First number of the first pair of
prime quadruplets occurring thirty apart ({1006301, 1006303, 1006307, 1006309} and {1006331, 1006333, 1006337, 1006339})[10]
1,024,000 = Sometimes, the number of bytes in a
megabyte[11]
9,663,500 = Initial number of first century xx00 to xx99 that possesses an identical prime pattern to any century with four or fewer digits: its prime pattern of {9663503, 9663523, 9663527, 9663539, 9663553, 9663581, 9663587} is identical to {5903, 5923, 5927, 5939, 5953, 5981, 5987}[63][64]
^There are no centuries containing more than seventeen primes between 200 and 122,853,771,370,899 inclusive,[48] and none containing more than fifteen between 2,705,000 and 839,296,299 inclusive.[49]
References
^"million". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
^"m". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from
the original on July 6, 2012. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
^"FT makes change to style guide to benefit text-to-speech software". Financial Times. The Financial Times Ltd. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 2024-03-13. The abbreviation of millions is now 'mn' instead of 'm'. One of the main reasons is to benefit text-to-speech software, which reads out the 'm' as metres instead of millions, confusing visually impaired readers. It also comes into line with our style for billion (bn) and trillion (tn).