Millions to Score (M to score)

1 million equals 50,000 score exactly.

1 million = 50,000 score

How to convert millions to score

To convert millions to score, multiply the number of millions by 50,000. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply score by 0.00002.

score = millions × 50,000

Example: 10 millions = 500,000 score.

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

Million (M)

General & non-SICurrent unit

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)

Score (score)

General & non-SITraditional unit (still used in some regions)

Twenty items. Seen in 'threescore years and ten' and 'four score and seven years ago'.

Score is a counting word for twenty, and it likely began as a notch. The Old Norse skor meant a notch or tally cut into a stick, and every twentieth mark was made larger, so the word came to mean twenty itself. English often pairs it with a number, as in threescore or fourscore. People also use scores loosely for a large, unspecified number.

Two famous passages keep the unit visible. In Psalm 90:10 of the King James Bible, the days of our years are threescore years and ten, which is 70, or fourscore, which is 80, if strength allows. And on November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln opened the Gettysburg Address with four score and seven years ago, meaning 87 years, which counts back to 1776 and the Declaration of Independence. A score of years is simply two decades.

1 score = 20 pieces (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Score (number); King James Bible, Psalm 90:10 (BibleHub); Wikipedia: Gettysburg Address

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