A million is the number 1,000,000, which is one thousand times one thousand. It is often used to describe very large amounts of money, people, or things.
From Old French ‘million,’ an enlarged form of ‘mil’ meaning ‘thousand,’ itself from Latin ‘mille.’ The idea was ‘a great thousand.’
If you counted one number per second without stopping, it would take you about 11 and a half days to reach a million. A billion, by contrast, would take you over 31 years—our brains are bad at feeling how huge that jump really is.
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