One million (1,000,000), 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 An augmentative ( abbreviated ) is a morphological form of a word which expresses greater intensity, often in size but also in other attributes. It is the opposite of a diminutive. Overaugmenting something often makes it grotesque and so in s ...

suffix ''-one''. It is commonly abbreviated in British English as m (not to be confused with the metric prefix "m", '' milli'', for ), M, MM ("thousand thousands", from Latin "Mille"; not to be confused with the Roman numeral = 2,000), mm (not to be confused with

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), or mn in financial contexts. In

scientific notation Scientific notation is a way of expressing numbers that are too large or too small (usually would result in a long string of digits) to be conveniently written in decimal form. It may be referred to as scientific form or standard index form, o ...

, it is written as or 10⁶. Physical quantities can also be expressed using the

SI prefix The International System of Units, known by the international abbreviation SI in all languages and sometimes pleonastically as the SI system, is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement. E ...

mega Mega or MEGA may refer to: Science * mega-, a metric prefix denoting 106 * Mega (number), a certain very large integer in Steinhaus–Moser notation * "mega-" a prefix meaning "large" that is used in taxonomy * Gravity assist, for ''Moon-Eart ...

(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 the English language as a

metaphor A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas. Metaphors are often compared wit ...

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 1000 or thousand may refer to: * 1000 (number), a natural number * AD 1000, a leap year in the Julian calendar * 1000 BC, a year of the Before Christ era * 1000 metres, a middle-distance running event * 1000°, a German electronic dance music magaz ...

and also the cube of

100 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to des ...

Visualizing one million

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

s in a kilometre, and roughly a million sixteenths of an inch in a

mile The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 Englis ...

(1 sixteenth = 0.0625). A typical

car A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods. The year 1886 is regarded as ...

tire A tire (American English) or tyre (British English) is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide traction on the surface over which t ...

might rotate a million times in a trip, while the engine would do several times that number of

revolutions In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...

. * Fingers: If the width of a human finger is , then a million fingers lined up would cover a distance of . If a person walks at a speed of , 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 , the volume of a cube one hundred grains on a side. One million cubic inches would be the volume of a small room feet long by feet wide by feet high. * Mass: A million cubic millimetres (small droplets) of water would have a volume of one

litre The litre (international spelling) or liter (American English spelling) (SI symbols L and l, other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm3), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm3) or 0.001 cubic metre (m3) ...

and a mass of one kilogram. A million millilitres or

cubic centimetre A cubic centimetre (or cubic centimeter in US English) (SI unit symbol: cm3; non-SI abbreviations: cc and ccm) is a commonly used unit of volume that corresponds to the volume of a cube that measures 1 cm × 1 cm × 1 cm. One cu ...

s (one

cubic metre The cubic metre (in Commonwealth English and international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or cubic meter (in American English) is the unit of volume in the International System of Units (SI). Its symbol is ...

) of water has a mass of a million

gram The gram (originally gramme; SI unit symbol g) is a unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one one thousandth of a kilogram. Originally defined as of 1795 as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to th ...

s or one tonne. * Weight: A million

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s would weigh the same as an person. * Landscape: A pyramidal hill wide at the base and high would weigh about a million short tons. * Computer: A

display resolution The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is ...

of 1,280 by 800

pixel In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest point in an all points addressable display device. In most digital display devices, pixels are the sm ...

s contains 1,024,000 pixels. * Money: A USD bill of any denomination weighs . There are 454 grams in a pound. One million USD bills would weigh or 1 tonne (just over 1 short ton). * Time: A million seconds, 1 megasecond, is 11.57 days. In

Indian English Indian English (IE) is a group of English dialects spoken in the republic of India and among the Indian diaspora. English is used by the Indian government for communication, along with Hindi, as enshrined in the Constitution of India. ...

and

Pakistani English Pakistani English (also known as Paklish or Pinglish) is the group of English language varieties spoken and written in Pakistan. It was first so recognised and designated in the 1970s and 1980s. Pakistani English (PE), similar and related to ...

, it is also expressed as 10

lakh A lakh (; abbreviated L; sometimes written lac) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation: 105). In the Indian 2,2,3 convention of digit grouping, it is written as 1,00,000. For ...

. Lakh is derived from for 100,000 in Sanskrit. One_million_dots_1080p

Selected 7-digit numbers (1,000,001–9,999,999)

1,000,001 to 1,999,999

* 1,000,003 = Smallest 7- digit prime number * 1,000,405 = Smallest

triangular number A triangular number or triangle number counts objects arranged in an equilateral triangle. Triangular numbers are a type of figurate number, other examples being square numbers and cube numbers. The th triangular number is the number of dots in ...

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 ( and ) * 1,024,000 = Sometimes, the number of bytes in a megabyte * 1,030,301 = 101³, palindromic cube * 1,037,718 = Large Schröder number * 1,048,576 = 1024² = 32⁴ = 16⁵ = 4¹⁰ = 2²⁰, the number of

byte The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable uni ...

s in a mebibyte (or often, a megabyte) * 1,048,976 = smallest 7 digit Leyland number * 1,058,576 = Leyland number * 1,058,841 = 7⁶ x 3² * 1,084,051 = fifth Keith prime * 1,089,270 =

harmonic divisor number In mathematics, a harmonic divisor number, or Ore number (named after Øystein Ore who defined it in 1948), is a positive integer whose divisors have a harmonic mean that is an integer. The first few harmonic divisor numbers are: : 1, 6, 28, ...

* 1,111,111 =

repunit In recreational mathematics, a repunit is a number like 11, 111, or 1111 that contains only the digit 1 — a more specific type of repdigit. The term stands for repeated unit and was coined in 1966 by Albert H. Beiler in his book ''Recreat ...

* 1,112,083 = logarithmic number * 1,129,308³² + 1 is prime * 1,136,689 = Pell number, Markov number * 1,174,281 = Fine number * 1,185,921 = 1089² = 33⁴ * 1,200,304 = 1⁷ + 2⁷ + 3⁷ + 4⁷ + 5⁷ + 6⁷ + 7⁷ * 1,203,623 = smallest unprimeable number ending in 3 * 1,234,321 = 1111², palindromic square * 1,262,180 = number of triangle-free graphs on 12 vertices * 1,278,818 = Markov number * 1,299,709 = 100,000th prime number * 1,336,336 = 1156² = 34⁴ * 1,346,269 = Fibonacci number, Markov number * 1,367,631 = 111³, palindromic cube * 1,413,721 = square triangular number * 1,419,857 = 17⁵ * 1,421,280 = harmonic divisor number * 1,441,440 = colossally abundant number,

superior highly composite number In mathematics, a superior highly composite number is a natural number which has the highest ratio of its number of divisors to ''some'' positive power of itself than any other number. It is a stronger restriction than that of a highly composite ...

* 1,441,889 = Markov number * 1,500,625 = 1225² = 35⁴ * 1,539,720 = harmonic divisor number * 1,563,372 = Wedderburn-Etherington number * 1,594,323 = 3¹³ * 1,596,520 = Leyland number * 1,606,137 = number of ways to partition and then partition each cell (block) into subcells. * 1,607,521/1,136,689 ≈ √2 * 1,647,086 = Leyland number * 1,671,800 = Initial number of first century ''xx''00 to ''xx''99 consisting entirely of composite numbers * 1,679,616 = 1296² = 36⁴ = 6⁸ * 1,686,049 = Markov prime * 1,687,989 = number of square (0,1)-matrices without zero rows and with exactly 7 entries equal to 1 * 1,730,787 = Riordan number * 1,741,725 = equal to the sum of the seventh power of its digits * 1,771,561 = 1331² = 121³ = 11⁶, also, Commander Spock's estimate for the

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population in the '' Star Trek'' episode "

The Trouble with Tribbles "The Trouble with Tribbles" is the fifteenth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series ''Star Trek''. Written by David Gerrold and directed by Joseph Pevney, it was first broadcast on December 29, 1967. In ...

" * 1,864,637 = k such that the sum of the squares of the first k primes is divisible by k. * 1,874,161 = 1369² = 37⁴ * 1,889,568 = 18⁵ * 1,928,934 = 2 x 3⁹ x 7² * 1,941,760 = Leyland number * 1,953,125 = 125³ = 5⁹

2,000,000 to 2,999,999

* 2,000,002 = number of surface-points of a tetrahedron with edge-length 1000 * 2,000,376 = 126³ * 2,012,174 = Leyland number * 2,012,674 = Markov number * 2,085,136 = 1444² = 38⁴ * 2,097,152 = 128³ = 8⁷ = 2²¹ * 2,097,593 = Leyland prime * 2,124,679 = largest known

Wolstenholme prime In number theory, a Wolstenholme prime is a special type of prime number satisfying a stronger version of Wolstenholme's theorem. Wolstenholme's theorem is a congruence relation satisfied by all prime numbers greater than 3. Wolstenholme primes ...

* 2,178,309 = Fibonacci number * 2,222,222 = repdigit * 2,313,441 = 1521² = 39⁴ * 2,356,779 =

Motzkin number In mathematics, the th Motzkin number is the number of different ways of drawing non-intersecting chords between points on a circle (not necessarily touching every point by a chord). The Motzkin numbers are named after Theodore Motzkin and have ...

* 2,423,525 = Markov number * 2,476,099 = 19⁵ * 2,560,000 = 1600² = 40⁴ * 2,567,284 = number of

partially ordered set In mathematics, especially order theory, a partially ordered set (also poset) formalizes and generalizes the intuitive concept of an ordering, sequencing, or arrangement of the elements of a set. A poset consists of a set together with a binary ...

with 10 unlabeled elements * 2,646,723 = little Schroeder number * 2,674,440 =

Catalan number In combinatorial mathematics, the Catalan numbers are a sequence of natural number In mathematics, the natural numbers are those numbers used for counting (as in "there are ''six'' coins on the table") and ordering (as in "this is the ''t ...

* 2,692,537 = Leonardo prime * 2,744,210 = Pell number * 2,796,203 = Wagstaff prime, Jacobsthal prime * 2,825,761 = 1681² = 41⁴ * 2,890,625 = 1-

automorphic number In mathematics, an automorphic number (sometimes referred to as a circular number) is a natural number in a given number base b whose square "ends" in the same digits as the number itself. Definition and properties Given a number base b, a natu ...

* 2,922,509 = Markov prime * 2,985,984 = 1728² = 144³ = 12⁶ = 1,000,000₁₂ AKA a great-great-gross

3,000,000 to 3,999,999

* 3,111,696 = 1764² = 42⁴ * 3,200,000 = 20⁵ * 3,263,442 = product of the first five terms of

Sylvester's sequence In number theory, Sylvester's sequence is an integer sequence in which each term of the sequence is the product of the previous terms, plus one. The first few terms of the sequence are :2, 3, 7, 43, 1807, 3263443, 10650056950807, 11342371305542184 ...

* 3,263,443 = sixth term of Sylvester's sequence * 3,276,509 = Markov prime * 3,301,819 =

alternating factorial Alternating may refer to: Mathematics * Alternating algebra, an algebra in which odd-grade elements square to zero * Alternating form, a function formula in algebra * Alternating group, the group of even permutations of a finite set * Alterna ...

* 3,333,333 = repdigit * 3,360,633 = palindromic in 3 consecutive bases: 6281826₉ = 3360633₁₀ = 1995991₁₁ * 3,418,801 = 1849² = 43⁴ * 3,426,576 = number of free 15-ominoes * 3,524,578 = Fibonacci number, Markov number * 3,554,688 = 2-

* 3,626,149 = Wedderburn–Etherington prime * 3,628,800 = 10! * 3,748,096 = 1936² = 44⁴ * 3,880,899/2,744,210 ≈ √2

4,000,000 to 4,999,999

* 4,008,004 = 2002², palindromic square * 4,037,913 = sum of the first ten factorials * 4,084,101 = 21⁵ * 4,100,625 = 2025² = 45⁴ * 4,194,304 = 2048² = 4¹¹ = 2²² * 4,194,788 = Leyland number * 4,208,945 = Leyland number * 4,210,818 = equal to the sum of the seventh powers of its digits * 4,213,597 =

Bell number In combinatorial mathematics, the Bell numbers count the possible partitions of a set. These numbers have been studied by mathematicians since the 19th century, and their roots go back to medieval Japan. In an example of Stigler's law of eponym ...

* 4,260,282 = Fine number * 4,297,512 = 12-th derivative of x^x at x=1 * 4,324,320 = colossally abundant number, superior highly composite number,

pronic number A pronic number is a number that is the product of two consecutive integers, that is, a number of the form n(n+1).. The study of these numbers dates back to Aristotle. They are also called oblong numbers, heteromecic numbers,. or rectangular number ...

* 4,400,489 = Markov number * 4,444,444 = repdigit * 4,477,456 = 2116² = 46⁴ * 4,782,969 = 2187² = 9⁷ = 3¹⁴ * 4,782,974 = n such that n , (3ⁿ + 5) * 4,785,713 = Leyland number * 4,805,595 = Riordan number * 4,826,809 = 2197² = 169³ = 13⁶ * 4,879,681 = 2209² = 47⁴

5,000,000 to 5,999,999

* 5,134,240 = the largest number that cannot be expressed as the sum of distinct fourth powers * 5,153,632 = 22⁵ * 5,221,225 = 2285², palindromic square * 5,293,446 = Large Schröder number * 5,308,416 = 2304² = 48⁴ * 5,496,925 = first

cyclic number A cyclic number is an integer for which cyclic permutations of the digits are successive integer multiples of the number. The most widely known is the six-digit number 142857, whose first six integer multiples are :142857 × 1 = 142857 :14 ...

base 6 A senary () numeral system (also known as base-6, heximal, or seximal) has six as its base. It has been adopted independently by a small number of cultures. Like decimal, it is a semiprime, though it is unique as the product of the only two con ...

* 5,555,555 = repdigit * 5,702,887 = Fibonacci number * 5,761,455 = The number of primes under 10⁸ * 5,764,801 = 2401² = 49⁴ = 7⁸ * 5,882,353 = 588² + 2353²

6,000,000 to 6,999,999

* 6,250,000 = 2500² = 50⁴ * 6,436,343 = 23⁵ * 6,536,382 = Motzkin number * 6,625,109 = Pell number, Markov number * 6,666,666 = repdigit * 6,765,201 = 2601² = 51⁴ * 6,948,496 = 2636², palindromic square

7,000,000 to 7,999,999

* 7,109,376 = 1-

* 7,311,616 = 2704² = 52⁴ * 7,453,378 = Markov number * 7,529,536 = 2744² = 196³ = 14⁶ * 7,652,413 = Largest n-digit pandigital

prime A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only ways ...

* 7,777,777 = repdigit * 7,779,311 = A hit song written by Prince and released in 1982 by The Time * 7,861,953 = Leyland number * 7,890,481 = 2809² = 53⁴ * 7,906,276 = pentagonal triangular number * 7,913,837 = Keith number * 7,962,624 = 24⁵

8,000,000 to 8,999,999

* 8,000,000 = Used to represent infinity in Japanese mythology * 8,108,731 =

repunit prime In recreational mathematics, a repunit is a number like 11, 111, or 1111 that contains only the digit 1 — a more specific type of repdigit. The term stands for repeated unit and was coined in 1966 by Albert H. Beiler in his book ''Recreat ...

base 14 There are many different numeral systems, that is, writing systems for expressing numbers. By culture / time period By type of notation Numeral systems are classified here as to whether they use positional notation (also known as place-value ...

* 8,388,607 = second composite Mersenne number with a prime exponent * 8,388,608 = 2²³ * 8,389,137 =

Leyland number In number theory, a Leyland number is a number of the form :x^y + y^x where ''x'' and ''y'' are integers greater than 1. They are named after the mathematician Paul Leyland. The first few Leyland numbers are : 8, 17, 32, 54, 57, 100, 145, 17 ...

* 8,399,329 = Markov number * 8,436,379 = Wedderburn-Etherington number * 8,503,056 = 2916² = 54⁴ * 8,675,309 = A hit song for

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(also a twin prime with 8,675,311) * 8,675,311 = Twin prime with 8,675,309 * 8,888,888 = repdigit * 8,946,176 = self-descriptive number in base 8

9,000,000 to 9,999,999

* 9,150,625 = 3025² = 55⁴ * 9,227,465 = Fibonacci number, Markov number * 9,369,319 =

Newman–Shanks–Williams prime In mathematics, a Newman–Shanks–Williams prime (NSW prime) is a prime number ''p'' which can be written in the form :S_=\frac. NSW primes were first described by Morris Newman, Daniel Shanks and Hugh C. Williams in 1981 during the study o ...

* 9,647,009 = Markov number * 9,653,449 = square

Stella octangula number In mathematics, a stella octangula number is a figurate number based on the stella octangula, of the form .. The sequence of stella octangula numbers is :0, 1, 14, 51, 124, 245, 426, 679, 1016, 1449, 1990, ... Only two of these numbers are squar ...

* 9,581,014 = n such that n , (3ⁿ + 5) * 9,663,500 = Initial number of first century ''xx''00 to ''xx''99 that possesses an identical prime pattern to any century with four or fewer digits: its prime pattern of is identical to * 9,694,845 = Catalan number * 9,699,690 = eighth primorial * 9,765,625 = 3125² = 25⁵ = 5¹⁰ * 9,800,817 = equal to the sum of the seventh powers of its digits * 9,834,496 = 3136² = 56⁴ * 9,865,625 =

* 9,926,315 = equal to the sum of the seventh powers of its digits * 9,938,375 = 215³, the largest 7-digit cube * 9,997,156 = largest

with 7 digits and the 4,471st triangular number * 9,998,244 = 3162², the largest 7-digit square * 9,999,991 = Largest 7-digit prime number * 9,999,999 = repdigit

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