Million

Million (abbreviation million ) is a numeral, or the number name for the number 1,000,000 = 106

Linguistic

The numeral million comes from the Italian. It consists of the originally Latin, mille number word for " thousand " and the Vergrößerungssuffix -one together, so does " big thousand ". From the Italian, it came as a loanword in many European languages ​​.

The word is in the million Germans and a noun is declined accordingly in details with fractions over a million or data with decimal places, eventually all numbers from 2,000,000 words used in the plural: half a million, a million, 0.8 million, one and a half million, two million, ... As atomic number but it is always written together: the ( a ) millionth, two millionth ... So you write eg for 1,204,613 " one million two hundred four thousand six hundred and thirteen ."

The million is abbreviated according to DIN 5008 with million. German -language dictionaries Mill also know as shorthand, but while reading a likelihood of confusion with the billion. Increasingly, the abbreviation " Mille " is colloquially used, which conflicts with the established importance of mille for a thousand.

In the metric system is the Greek prefix mega - (from Greek μέγας, mégas - large) for the millions of value, the prefix micro - ( from Greek gr μικρός, microphones - small) for a millionth.

Since the Greek language a simple word for " ten thousand " knows ( μύριοι, myriad ), the number word for million as " hundred thousand " is formed, Greek εκατομμύριο ( ekatommyrio ). The same is true for the Chinese and the derived number systems of East Asia. In India, it is used instead of a million and a billion and in English the Hindi words for 100,000 lakh and crore for 10 million. 20 crore eight lakh five thousand three hundred: 200 805 300 Accordingly, it is not there, but 20,08,05,300 writes.

Resolutions for units

Referring to units, then called you a million times the unit with the prefix mega (abbreviated M), whereas the millionth part ( 10-6) with micro (abbreviated μ ) is called. For example, a micrometer ( micron ) is a millionth of a meter (10 -6m ).

Is also the reference to the unit byte in the computer science today megabytes ( MB) understood in the sense of exactly one million bytes the name. These are 106 bytes, not 220 = 1048576 bytes, which exceeds one million bytes by almost 5 %. (: Abbreviated MiB ) suggested, the Naming of 220 bytes, the term mebibyte is Mebi (Mi) is a Binärpräfix as mega (M ) is a Dezimalpräfix.

Mathematical

The role in the naming of giant figures

In German (but not in English! ) The number names of giant figures are based on the basis of 1,000,001 exponent n, which corresponds to n> 1, a corresponding number of Latin words. One designated 1000000n a " n- illion " with 1000000n 0.5 a " n- illiarde ". So it is called, for example, the number 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 = 106.3 = 10000003 trillion and the number 1051 = 106.8, 5 = 10,000,008.5 a Oktilliarde. For the differences in English and in other languages ​​and other countries see long and short head.

Science

Similar to percent and parts per thousand, there is the English phrase parts per million (ppm ), which is 1,000,000 parts for one.

Culture and Society

The Million is a synonym for a very large amount, especially for a large amount of money. In addition to the millionaire as the epitome of the rich people are like millions of credit and terms of this million-seller.

• The end of the 19th century by the Sale of building wealth quickly reached farmers in Berlin ( millions of farmers ), are the subject of a novel and play by Max Kretzer. A similar motif is based on the television series The million farming.
• Million Dollar Baby is the title of an award-winning film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood about the boxing milieu.
• Million line is the name of a particularly expensive railway line in the Netherlands.