Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
**a thousand million million million million years** for the earth to run into t
Spanish translation:
mil cuatrillones de años
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T&I NatashaC
Mar 12, 2005 17:18
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**a thousand million million million million years** for the earth to run into t
English to Spanish
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¿Cómo dirían ese número chicos?
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mil cuatrillones de años
Siendo un texto de Stephen Hawking, supongo que llegó a ese número en base a algún cálculo, y que no es sólo una expresión equivalente a "muchísimo tiempo".
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Richard Benham
: You could well be right, if Spanish numbers work like this. I know they do in quite a few languages.//Good, then I agree with you, but the situation in English is not so simple...!
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In Spanish, a billion is a million million, not a thousand million like in English. A million million million million is a "cuatrillón"
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Leopoldo Gurman
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lalinded
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MPGS
: 100% :)
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pep
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Juan Carlstein
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Cecilia Della Croce
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you guys. I think this fits the text best. Thank you for all your help!"
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miles de millones de años
Repetir cuatro veces "millones" es un poco redundante.
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teju
: para conservar el enfásis repetitivo, se podría decir miles y miles y miles y miles de millones de años
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Si, estoy de acuerdo, contemplé esa posibilidad. Gracias, Teju :)
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Richard Benham
: I believe the author is referring to a specific number, and you can't substitute just any old number....
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OK Richard, I get it. Thank you and good bye.
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trobador
: Me parece acertado y acorde con el contexto
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Muchas gracias, Trobador :)
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Adriana Torres
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Gracias, Adrito :)
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Xenia Wong
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millón, billón, trillón, cuatrillón, quintullón, sextullón....
lo que preguntas es en la quinta posición.....quintullón......así lo he visto.
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MPGS
: quintillón / sextillón (es un matiz!) ... :) ... :)
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Gracias, MPGS.....XEN
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miles de millares de billones de años
Un alterantiva más
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Richard Benham
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10^27 años
Assuming that the "million"s aren't just added for rhetorical effect, and an actual number is intended, this is it.
The "^27" is meant to indicate a superscript 27.
You could also write a 1 with 27 zeroes after it, if you had time.
Note: in UK English, a billion used to be a million million, a trillion was a million billion (i.e. a million million million), etc. In the US a billion is a thousand million, then a trillion is a thousand thousand million (i.e. a million million), etc.
A few years ago now, the UK changed over to the US system; so I suspect this rather longwinded formulation is intended to avoid any confusion between the old and new systems.
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Alejandro having confirmed what I thought about Spanish numbers, I support his suggestion.
The "^27" is meant to indicate a superscript 27.
You could also write a 1 with 27 zeroes after it, if you had time.
Note: in UK English, a billion used to be a million million, a trillion was a million billion (i.e. a million million million), etc. In the US a billion is a thousand million, then a trillion is a thousand thousand million (i.e. a million million), etc.
A few years ago now, the UK changed over to the US system; so I suspect this rather longwinded formulation is intended to avoid any confusion between the old and new systems.
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Note added at 33 mins (2005-03-12 17:51:51 GMT)
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Alejandro having confirmed what I thought about Spanish numbers, I support his suggestion.
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MPGS
: 10^27 is cool :) ... definetely!... :)
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Thanks. At least it's arithmetically correct....
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Yvonne Becker
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milcuatrillones
Números que están formados multiplicando el diez por sí mismo un número determinado de veces.
Cuando están escritos en base diez esos números terminan en ese número de ceros. Las primeras potencias de diez son:
10=101 = diez
100=102 = cien
1000=103 = mil
1000000=106 = milln
1000000000=109 = millardo
1000000000000=1012 = billn
10^15 = milbillones
10^18 = trilln
10^21 = miltrillones
10^24 = cuatrilln
10^27 = milcuatrillones
10^30 = quintilln
10^33 = milquintillones
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Note added at 46 mins (2005-03-12 18:04:34 GMT)
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I prefer to say \"gajillion\" (:>)
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Note added at 47 mins (2005-03-12 18:05:07 GMT)
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just kidding (:>)
Cuando están escritos en base diez esos números terminan en ese número de ceros. Las primeras potencias de diez son:
10=101 = diez
100=102 = cien
1000=103 = mil
1000000=106 = milln
1000000000=109 = millardo
1000000000000=1012 = billn
10^15 = milbillones
10^18 = trilln
10^21 = miltrillones
10^24 = cuatrilln
10^27 = milcuatrillones
10^30 = quintilln
10^33 = milquintillones
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Note added at 46 mins (2005-03-12 18:04:34 GMT)
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I prefer to say \"gajillion\" (:>)
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Note added at 47 mins (2005-03-12 18:05:07 GMT)
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just kidding (:>)
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Richard Benham
: You got the superscripts all wrong in the first few (written as part of the base), but this is the right idea.//When you copied, the superscripts were converted to plain numbers.
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just copied the chart...there are several charts out there , but this was the most complete list I could find to help Natasha...it is also has a list in English
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