The term million uses the same prefix and symbol in both the short and long scale systems for integer powers of ten(ten multiplied by itself a certain number of times).
The meaning of the word "million" is common to the short scale and long scale numbering systems, unlike the larger numbers, which have different names in the two systems. A power of 10 is any of the integer powers of the number ten; in other words, ten multiplied by itself a certain number of times (when the power is a positive integer). For whole numbers smaller than 1,000,000,000 (10), such as one thousand or one million, the two scales are identical. 
