Half Dozens to Millions (½ doz to M)
1 half dozen equals 0.000006 millions exactly.
How to convert half dozens to millions
To convert half dozens to millions, multiply the number of half dozens by 0.000006. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply millions by 166,666.6667 (rounded).
millions = half dozens × 0.000006
Example: 10 half dozens = 0.00006 millions.
Large-number names differ around the world: this site uses the short scale (billion = 10⁹) by default, and lists the long-scale billion separately.
About these units
Half Dozen (½ doz)
Six items.
Half a dozen is six, and the phrase is best known from an idiom: six of one, half a dozen of the other. The saying works because the two quantities are identical, merely named differently, so it dismisses a choice between two options as pointless. The unit rests on the dozen, which came into English from Old French douzaine and Latin duodecim, and halving twelve leaves a number that still divides evenly by two and three.
In counting terms, half a dozen is 6 pieces or 3 pairs, and two of them make a dozen. A gross contains 24 half dozens, and a great gross contains 288. Because the larger bulk units are all built from twelves, half a dozen fits into every one of them with no remainder.
1 half dozen = 6 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Dozen
Million (M)
One million (10⁶).
Million comes from Italian. Old Italian milione was built from mille, a thousand, plus an augmentative ending, so it began as something like a big thousand. The name proved useful as a stem: by 1475 the French mathematician Jehan Adam was already building larger names from it, bymillion and trimillion, for 10¹² and 10¹⁸. The short and long scales agree on the million itself, 1,000,000 or 10⁶, and diverge only for the larger names. The SI prefix mega- stands for 10⁶.
Millions are hard to feel. Counting out a million items one by one is famously laborious, yet a million seconds lasts only about 11.57 days. A billion seconds, by contrast, is roughly 31.7 years.
1 million = 1,000,000 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Million; Wikipedia: Names of large numbers; BIPM SI Brochure, 9th edition (2019)
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