# million (numerical)

a number that is a large quantity

- Computed level: L8 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: numerical  ·  Arena: million

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [large](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-large.size), [quantity](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-quantity.numerical)

**Through:** When a numerical quantity is large, it is a very high number

**Novel properties:**
- order of magnitude
- standard naming

## Examples
- The city of Los Angeles processes over a million tons of waste annually at the Puente Hills landfill. *(engineering)*
- In 2020, the Twitter account @BarstoolSports reached one million followers during the U.S. presidential election cycle. *(computing)*
- The 1969 Woodstock Festival drew an estimated 400,000 people, approaching a million with support crews and stragglers. *(events)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-million.numerical.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*