Why do we take a million man-hours to calculate FR/SR etc? Why not for 10,000 or 1,00,000?

prabodhtripathy
Dear Team, Can anyone clarify as to why we take a "million" (10,00,000) man-hours always? Why not for 10,000 or 1,00,000? is it written in IS.3786 ?
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