Million

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List of numbers - Integers 100000 1000000 10000000
Cardinal	One million
Ordinal	One millionth
Factorization	2⁶ · 5⁶
Roman numeral	<math>\mathrm{\bar{M}}</math>
Unicode representation of Roman numeral
Binary	11110100001001000000
Hexadecimal	F4240

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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".

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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.

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

[edit] 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 - repdigitar:1000000 (???)