1,000,000
| ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal | one million | |||
| Ordinal | 1000000th (one millionth) | |||
| Roman numeral | Template:Roman/2 | |||
| Binary | N/A | |||
| Ternary | 12122102020013 | |||
| Quaternary | 33100210004 | |||
| Quinary | 2240000005 | |||
| Senary | 332333446 | |||
| Octal | 36411008 | |||
| Duodecimal | 40285412 | |||
| Hexadecimal | F424016 | |||
| Vigesimal | 6500020 | |||
| Base 36 | LFLS36 | |||
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 "mille" 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
1,000,000 Media
Visualisation of powers of ten from 1 to 1 million
"mega-" 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.