4-425: A million is 1,000,000. Millions or Million may refer to: Million 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 . It is commonly abbreviated: In scientific notation , it
8-461: Is written as 1 × 10 or 10 . Physical quantities can also be expressed using the SI prefix mega (M), when dealing with SI units; for example, 1 megawatt (1 MW) equals 1,000,000 watts . 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
12-469: 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". 1,000,000 is also the square of 1000 and also the cube of 100 . Even though it is often stressed that counting to precisely a million would be an exceedingly tedious task due to
16-509: The time and concentration required, there are many ways to bring the number "down to size" in approximate quantities, ignoring irregularities or packing effects. In Indian English and Pakistani English , it is also expressed as 10 lakh . Lakh is derived from lakṣa for 100,000 in Sanskrit . There are 78,498 primes less than 10 , where 999,983 is the largest prime number smaller than 1,000,000. Increments of 10 from 1 million through
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