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Million

A million (1,000,000) is a large number. It is a thousand thousands.

Examples

• A millionare who has a million units of currency
• In computer science a megabyte means a million bytes.
• In measurement there are a million millimeters in a kilometer. Also, light travels a million kilometers in around 3 seconds (See light speed)

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