Million

A million is a number equal to 106 = 1,0002 = 1,000,000 = 1E6 = one followed by six zeroes (in both the short scale and the long scale). It is both a square number and cubic number. It is often used as hyperbole or exaggeration to represent an indefinitely large number. A million is one of the first numbers to be generally considered big by most people's standards. The name came from an Italian word "millione" which combined the Italian "mille" meaning one thousand with the augmentative suffix -one.

Examples

 * One million milliseconds is approximately 17 minutes, one million seconds is approximately 11.5 days, one million minutes is about two years, one million hours is about 114 years, one million days is about 2700 years, one million weeks is about 19000 years, and one million month is approximately 83000 years.
 * Sbiis Saibian computed that if a person walked one thousand miles every 31 days, after 75 years, that person would have managed to walk about 883000 miles.
 * A tower of a million people would reach 1700 km high, which is about four times higher than the.
 * The most popular add-on for Firefox, AdBlock Plus, has about 1997 million downloads as of October, 2016.
 * The SI prefix mega- multiplies by one million.
 * A million one dollar bills would cover the area of two football fields.
 * The country of Kazakhstan is slightly larger than 1,000,000 square miles in area; and the country of Egypt is slightly larger than 1,000,000 square kilometers in area.
 * The state of Alaska is about 1,700,000 square kilometers in area.

In googology
In Greek-based number-naming systems, a million is associated with SI prefix mega-, and with SI prefix micro- in Latin systems.

A million is the boundary between class 1 and class 2 numbers in Robert Munafo's idea (see class for more).

A million appears in the definition of Aarex's Graham Generator as well as googolisms formed using it such as forcal.

Currency-related use
There are Iran Cheques with this number in the denomination.

Some other currencies, such as the third and the first, had banknotes with this number in the denomination.

It is also the prize for correctly answering all fifteen questions in some national editions of the game show  in the respective local currency.

Furthermore, it was also the prize for correctly answering the first five questions in the Italian game show  in.

Finally, it was also the prize for correctly answering the first ten questions in the Japanese game show  in.