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List of numbers – Integers 100000 100000 (number) One hundred thousand is the natural number following 99999 and preceding 100001. In scientific notation, it is written as 105.In South Asia, one hundred thousand is called a lakh... 1000000 10000000 10000000 (number) Ten million is the natural number following 9999999 and preceding 10000001.In scientific notation, it is written as 107.In South Asia, it is known as the Crore.- Selected 8-digit numbers :*10077696 = 69...
Cardinal Cardinal number In mathematics, cardinal numbers, or cardinals for short, are a generalization of the natural numbers used to measure the cardinality of sets. The cardinality of a finite set is a natural number – the number of elements in the set. The transfinite cardinal numbers describe the sizes of infinite...	One million
Abbreviation Abbreviation An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase...	M
Ordinal Ordinal number In set theory, an ordinal number, or just ordinal, is the order type of a well-ordered set. They are usually identified with hereditarily transitive sets. Ordinals are an extension of the natural numbers different from integers and from cardinals...	One millionth
Roman numeral
Factorization Factorization In mathematics, factorization or factoring is the decomposition of an object into a product of other objects, or factors, which when multiplied together give the original...	2⁶ · 5⁶
Binary Binary numeral system The binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, represents numeric values using two symbols, 0 and 1. More specifically, the usual base-2 system is a positional notation with a radix of 2...	11110100001001000000
Hexadecimal Hexadecimal In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal is a positional numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0–9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F to represent values ten to fifteen...	F4240

One million (1,000,000) or one thousand thousand, is the natural number

Natural number

In mathematics, the natural numbers are the ordinary whole numbers used for counting and ordering . These purposes are related to the linguistic notions of cardinal and ordinal numbers, respectively...

following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

millione (milione in modern Italian), from mille, "thousand", plus the augmentative

Augmentative

An augmentative is a morphological form of a word which expresses greater intensity, often in size, but also in other attributes...

suffix -one.

In scientific notation

Scientific notation

Scientific notation is a way of writing numbers that are too large or too small to be conveniently written in standard decimal notation. Scientific notation has a number of useful properties and is commonly used in calculators and by scientists, mathematicians, doctors, and engineers.In scientific...

, it is written as or just 10⁶. Physical quantities

Physical quantity

A physical quantity is a physical property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, that can be quantified by measurement.-Definition of a physical quantity:Formally, the International Vocabulary of Metrology, 3rd edition defines quantity as:...

can also be expressed using the SI prefix

SI prefix

The International System of Units specifies a set of unit prefixes known as SI prefixes or metric prefixes. An SI prefix is a name that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a decadic multiple or fraction of the unit. Each prefix has a unique symbol that is prepended to the unit symbol...

mega, when dealing with SI

Si, si, or SI may refer to :- Measurement, mathematics and science :* International System of Units , the modern international standard version of the metric system...

units. For example, 1 megawatt equals 1,000,000 watt

Watt

The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...

s.

The meaning of the word "million" is common to the short scale

Long and short scales

The long and short scales are two of several different large-number naming systems used throughout the world for integer powers of ten. Many countries, including most in continental Europe, use the long scale whereas most English-speaking countries use the short scale...

and long scale

Long and short scales

numbering systems, unlike the larger numbers, which have different names in the two systems.

The million is sometimes used in the English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

as a metaphor

Metaphor

A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels." Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via...

for a very large number, as in "Never in a million years" and "You're one in a million", or a hyperbole

Hyperbole

Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally....

, as in "I've walked a million miles" and "You've asked the million dollar question".

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
Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica , published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia that is available in print, as a DVD, and on the Internet. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert...

, or 600 pages of pulp paperback fiction
Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines , also collectively known as pulp fiction, refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long...

contains approximately one million characters.
Length: There are one million millimeters in a kilometer, and roughly a million sixteenths of an inch
Inch
An inch is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units. There are 36 inches in a yard and 12 inches in a foot...

in a mile
Mile
A mile is a unit of length, most commonly 5,280 feet . The mile of 5,280 feet is sometimes called the statute mile or land mile to distinguish it from the nautical mile...

. A typical car
Čar
Čar is a village in the municipality of Bujanovac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the town has a population of 296 people.-References:...

tire
Tire
A tire or tyre is a ring-shaped covering that fits around a wheel rim to protect it and enable better vehicle performance by providing a flexible cushion that absorbs shock while keeping the wheel in close contact with the ground...

might rotate a million times in a 1200 miles (1,931.2 km) trip, while the engine would do several times that number of revolutions
Revolutions per minute
Revolutions per minute is a measure of the frequency of a rotation. It annotates the number of full rotations completed in one minute around a fixed axis...

.
Fingers: If the width of a human finger
Finger (unit)
A finger , is usually seven eighths of an inch or 2.2225 cm . The width of an adult human male finger tip is indeed about two centimetres. The inch, on the other hand, originates in the breadth of a thumb. In English this unit has mostly fallen out of use....

is 2.2225 cm (7/8 inch), then a million fingers lined up would cover a distance of approximately 22 km (13.7 mi). If a person walks at a speed of 4 km/h, 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 only one hundred, so a million objects or cubic units is contained in a cube only a hundred objects or linear units on a side. A million grains of table salt or granulated sugar
Sugar
Sugar is a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavor.Sucrose in its refined form primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet...

occupies only about 64 ml, slightly over a quarter of a cup, the volume of a cube one hundred grains on a side. One million cubic inches would be the volume of a small room only 8 1/3 feet long by 8 1/3 feet wide by 8 1/3 feet high.
Mass: A million cubic millimeters (small droplets) of water would have a volume of (one litre
Litre
pic|200px|right|thumb|One litre is equivalent to this cubeEach side is 10 cm1 litre water = 1 kilogram water The litre is a metric system unit of volume equal to 1 cubic decimetre , to 1,000 cubic centimetres , and to 1/1,000 cubic metre...

) and a mass of one kilogram
Kilogram
The kilogram or kilogramme , also known as the kilo, is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units and is defined as being equal to the mass of the International Prototype Kilogram , which is almost exactly equal to the mass of one liter of water...

. A million millilitres or cubic centimetre
Cubic centimetre
A cubic centimetre is a commonly used unit of volume extending the derived SI-unit cubic metre, and corresponds to the volume of a cube measuring 1 cm × 1 cm × 1 cm...

s (one cubic metre
Cubic metre
The cubic metre is the SI derived unit of volume. It is the volume of a cube with edges one metre in length. An alternative name, which allowed a different usage with metric prefixes, was the stère...

) of water has a mass of a million gram
Gram
The gram is a metric system unit of mass....

s or one tonne
Tonne
The tonne, known as the metric ton in the US , often put pleonastically as "metric tonne" to avoid confusion with ton, is a metric system unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. The tonne is not an International System of Units unit, but is accepted for use with the SI...

.
Weight: A million 80 milligram Honey bee
Honey bee
Honey bees are a subset of bees in the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests out of wax. Honey bees are the only extant members of the tribe Apini, all in the genus Apis...

s would weigh the same as an 80 kg person.
Landscape: A pyramid
Pyramid
A pyramid is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge at a single point. The base of a pyramid can be trilateral, quadrilateral, or any polygon shape, meaning that a pyramid has at least three triangular surfaces...

al shaped hill 600 feet (182.9 m) wide at the base and 100 feet (30.5 m) high would weigh about a million tons.
Computer: A display resolution
Display resolution
The display resolution of a digital television 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 controlled by all different factors in cathode ray tube , flat panel or projection...

of 1,280 by 800 pixel
Pixel
In digital imaging, a pixel, or pel, is a single point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable screen element in a display device; it is the smallest unit of picture that can be represented or controlled....

s contains 1,024,000 pixels.
Money: A USD bill of any denomination weighs 1 gram. There are 454 grams in a pound. One million $1 bills would weigh in at 2,204.62 pounds, or just over 1 ton.

In Indian English

Indian English

Indian English is an umbrella term used to describe dialects of the English language spoken primarily in the Republic of India.As a result of British colonial rule until Indian independence in 1947 English is an official language of India and is widely used in both spoken and literary contexts...

, it may be known as 10 lakh

Lakh

A lakh is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand . It is widely used both in official and other contexts in Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and is often used in Indian English.-Usage:...

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

1,000,003 – Smallest 7-digit
Numerical digit
A digit is a symbol used in combinations to represent numbers in positional numeral systems. The name "digit" comes from the fact that the 10 digits of the hands correspond to the 10 symbols of the common base 10 number system, i.e...

prime number
Prime number
A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. A natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number is called a composite number. For example 5 is prime, as only 1 and 5 divide it, whereas 6 is composite, since it has the divisors 2...
1,046,527 – Carol number
1,048,576 = 2²⁰ (power of two
Power of two
In mathematics, a power of two means a number of the form 2n where n is an integer, i.e. the result of exponentiation with as base the number two and as exponent the integer n....

), 2,116-gonal number
Polygonal number
In mathematics, a polygonal number is a number represented as dots or pebbles arranged in the shape of a regular polygon. The dots were thought of as alphas . These are one type of 2-dimensional figurate numbers.- Definition and examples :...

, an 8,740-gonal number and a 174,764-gonal number, the number of byte
Byte
The byte is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the basic addressable element in many computer...

s in a mebibyte
Mebibyte
The mebibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The binary prefix mebi means 220, therefore 1 mebibyte is . The unit symbol for the mebibyte is MiB. The unit was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 2000 and has been accepted for use by all major...

, the number of kibibyte
Kibibyte
The kibibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for quantities of digital information. The binary prefix kibi means 1024; therefore, 1 kibibyte is . The unit symbol for the kibibyte is KiB. The unit was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 1999 and has been accepted for use...

s in a gibibyte
Gibibyte
The gibibyte is a standards-based binary multiple of the byte, a unit of digital information storage. The gibibyte unit symbol is GiB....

, and so on. Also the most rows that Calc
OpenOffice.org Calc
OpenOffice.org Calc is the spreadsheet component of the OpenOffice.org software package.Calc is similar to Microsoft Excel, with a roughly equivalent range of features. Calc is capable of opening and saving most spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel file format...

(OpenOffice.org Calc 3.3) can accept in a single worksheet
Worksheet
A worksheet is a sheet of paper, or on a computer, on which problems are worked out or solved and answers recorded.-Education:Students in a school may have 'fill-in-the-blank' sheets of questions, diagrams, or maps to help them with their exercises...

.
1,048,976 – Leyland number
Leyland number
In number theory, a Leyland number is a number of the form xy + yx, where x and y are integers greater than 1. The first few Leyland numbers are...
1,050,623 – Kynea number
1,058,576 – Leyland number
1,084,051 – Keith number
1,089,270 – harmonic divisor number
Harmonic divisor number
In mathematics, a harmonic divisor number, or Ore number , is a positive integer whose divisors have a harmonic mean that is an integer. The first few harmonic divisor numbers are...
1,136,689 – Pell number
Pell number
In mathematics, the Pell numbers are an infinite sequence of integers that have been known since ancient times, the denominators of the closest rational approximations to the square root of 2. This sequence of approximations begins 1/1, 3/2, 7/5, 17/12, and 41/29, so the sequence of Pell numbers...

, Markov number
Markov number
A Markov number or Markoff number is a positive integer x, y or z that is part of a solution to the Markov Diophantine equationx^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 3xyz,\,studied by .The first few Markov numbers are...
1,234,567 – Smarandache consecutive number (base 10 digits are in numerical order)
1,278,818 – Markov number
1,346,269 – Fibonacci number
Fibonacci number
In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers are the numbers in the following integer sequence:0,\;1,\;1,\;2,\;3,\;5,\;8,\;13,\;21,\;34,\;55,\;89,\;144,\; \ldots\; ....

, Markov number
1,413,721 – square triangular number
Square triangular number
In mathematics, a square triangular number is a number which is both a triangular number and a perfect square....
1,421,280 – harmonic divisor number
1,441,440 – colossally abundant number
Colossally abundant number
In mathematics, a colossally abundant number is a natural number that, in some rigorous sense, has a lot of divisors...
1,441,889 – Markov number
1,539,720 – harmonic divisor number
1,563,372 – Wedderburn-Etherington number
Wedderburn-Etherington number
In graph theory, the Wedderburn–Etherington numbers, named for Ivor Malcolm Haddon Etherington and Joseph Wedderburn, count how many weak binary trees can be constructed: that is, the number of trees for which each graph vertex is adjacent to no more than three other such vertices, for a...
1,594,323 = 3¹³
1,596,520 – Leyland number
1,647,086 – Leyland number
1,679,616 = 6⁸
1,686,049 – Markov number
1,741,725 – equal to the sum of the seventh power of its digits
1,771,561 = 11⁶ = 121³ = 1331², also, Commander Spock's estimate for the tribble population in the Star Trek
Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...

episode "The Trouble With Tribbles
The Trouble With Tribbles (TOS episode)
"The Trouble With Tribbles" is a second-season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, first broadcast on December 29, 1967 and repeated June 21, 1968...

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1,941,760 – Leyland number
1,953,125 = 5⁹
2,012,174 – Leyland number
2,012,674 - Markov number
2,097,152 = 2²¹, power of two
2,097,593 - prime Leyland number
2,124,679 - Wolstenholme prime
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 7...
2,178,309 - Fibonacci number
Fibonacci number
In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers are the numbers in the following integer sequence:0,\;1,\;1,\;2,\;3,\;5,\;8,\;13,\;21,\;34,\;55,\;89,\;144,\; \ldots\; ....
2,356,779 - Motzkin number
Motzkin number
In mathematics, a Motzkin number for a given number n is the number of different ways of drawing non-intersecting chords on a circle between n points. The Motzkin numbers have very diverse applications in geometry, combinatorics and number theory...
2,423,525 - Markov number
2,674,440 - Catalan number
Catalan number
In combinatorial mathematics, the Catalan numbers form a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems, often involvingrecursively defined objects...
2,744,210 - Pell number
2,796,203 - Wagstaff prime
2,922,509 - Markov number
3,263,442 - product of the first five terms of Sylvester's sequence
Sylvester's sequence
In number theory, Sylvester's sequence is an integer sequence in which each member of the sequence is the product of the previous members, plus one. The first few terms of the sequence are:...
3,263,443 - sixth term of Sylvester's sequence
3,276,509 - Markov number
3,301,819 - alternating factorial
Alternating factorial
In mathematics, an alternating factorial is the absolute value of the alternating sum of the first n factorials.This is the same as their sum, with the odd-indexed factorials multiplied by −1 if n is even, and the even-indexed factorials multiplied by −1 if n is odd, resulting in an...
3,524,578 - Fibonacci number, Markov number
3,626,149 - Wedderburn-Etherington number
3,628,800 = 10! (factorial
Factorial
In mathematics, the factorial of a non-negative integer n, denoted by n!, is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to n...

of ten)
4,037,913 - sum of the first ten factorials
4,190,207 - Carol number
4,194,304 = 2²², power of two
4,194,788 - Leyland number
4,198,399 - Kynea 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
Bell number
In combinatorics, the nth Bell number, named after Eric Temple Bell, is the number of partitions of a set with n members, or equivalently, the number of equivalence relations on it...
4,400,489 - Markov number
4,782,969 = 3¹⁴
4,785,713 - Leyland number
4,826,809 = 13⁶
5,134,240 - the largest number that cannot be expressed as the sum of distinct fourth powers
5,702,887 - Fibonacci number
5,764,801 = 7⁸
6,536,382 - Motzkin number
6,625,109 - Pell number, Markov number
7,418,880 = 4*8*15*16*23*42
7,453,378 - Markov number
7,861,953 - Leyland number
7,913,837 - Keith number
8,000,000 - Used to represent infinity in Japanese mythology
8,388,608 = 2²³, power of two
8,389,137 - Leyland number
8,399,329 - Markov number
8,436,379 - Wedderburn-Etherington number
8,675,309 - A hit song
867-5309/Jenny
"867-5309/Jenny" is a song written by Alex Call and Jim Keller and performed by Tommy Tutone that was released on the album Tommy Tutone 2, on the Columbia Records label. It peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number one on the Billboard Top Tracks chart in 1982...

for Tommy Tutone
Tommy Tutone
Tommy Tutone is a New Wave band, best known for its 1982 hit "867-5309/Jenny", which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Although it is usually referred to as a San Francisco band, it was actually based in Willits, California, at the time that "Jenny" was released...

(also a twin prime
Twin prime
A twin prime is a prime number that differs from another prime number by two. Except for the pair , this is the smallest possible difference between two primes. Some examples of twin prime pairs are , , , , and...

)
8,675,311 - A twin prime
8,946,176 - self-descriptive number
Self-descriptive number
A self-descriptive number is an integer m that in a given base b is b-digits long in which each digit d at position n counts how many instances of digit n are in m.For example, in base 10, the number 6210001000 is self-descriptive because of the following...

in base 8
9,227,465 - Fibonacci number, Markov number
9,369,319 - Newman–Shanks–Williams prime
9,647,009 - Markov number
9,694,845 - Catalan number
9,765,625 = 5¹⁰
9,800,817 - equal to the sum of the seventh powers of its digits
9,865,625 - Leyland number
Leyland number
In number theory, a Leyland number is a number of the form xy + yx, where x and y are integers greater than 1. The first few Leyland numbers are...
9,926,315 - equal to the sum of the seventh powers of its digits
9,999,991 - Largest 7-digit prime number

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Visualizing one million

See also

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