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The number that feels rich until you remember a billion is a thousand of these.
means The number 1,000,000 — a thousand thousands, often used loosely to mean 'a huge but countable amount.'
from From Old Italian 'milione,' built from 'mille' (thousand) plus the augmentative suffix '-one' (big) — literally a 'great thousand.' It entered French and then English in the 14th century, back when a million was such an absurdly large quantity that most languages hadn't needed a word for it yet.
- seconds to pass
- about 11.5 days of nonstop ticking
- origin
- from italian millione, literally great thousand
- money illusion
- a million dollars no longer buys a house
- dollar bills stacked
- pile reaches about 358 feet tall