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English: **a thousand million million million million years** for the earth to run into t

Spanish translation: mil cuatrillones de años







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English term or phrase:**a thousand million million million million years** for the earth to run into t
Spanish translation:mil cuatrillones de años
Entered by:T&I Natasha
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English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Science - Mathematics & Statistics
English term or phrase: **a thousand million million million million years** for the earth to run into t
¿Cómo dirían ese número chicos?
T&I Natasha
United States
Clarification request(s) and response
MPGS: 6:04pm Mar 12, 2005: millón, billón, trillón, cuatrillón, quintillón, sextillón, ... (each being 1 million --NOT 1 thousand!--- times the previous one)
Following URLs might help http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&q=mill%C3%B3n+bill%C3%B3n+... -

mil cuatrillones de años
Explanation:
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".
Selected response from:

Alejandro Hopkins
United States
Note from asker to answerer
Thank you guys. I think this fits the text best. Thank you for all your help!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +7mil cuatrillones de añosAlejandro Hopkins
4 +210^27 años
Richard Benham
4 +2miles de millones de años
xxxChutzpahtic
51 octillion yearsbigedsenior
4 +1milcuatrillones
marybro
5miles de millares de billones de añostrobador
4 +1millón, billón, trillón, cuatrillón, quintullón, sextullón....
xzw


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
miles de millones de años

Explanation:
Repetir cuatro veces "millones" es un poco redundante.

xxxChutzpahtic
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree teju: para conservar el enfásis repetitivo, se podría decir miles y miles y miles y miles de millones de años
12 mins
  -> Si, estoy de acuerdo, contemplé esa posibilidad. Gracias, Teju :)
disagree Richard Benham: I believe the author is referring to a specific number, and you can't substitute just any old number....
12 mins
  -> OK Richard, I get it. Thank you and good bye.
agree trobador: Me parece acertado y acorde con el contexto
14 mins
  -> Muchas gracias, Trobador :)
agree Adriana Torres
10 hrs
  -> Gracias, Adrito :)
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
millón, billón, trillón, cuatrillón, quintullón, sextullón....

Explanation:
lo que preguntas es en la quinta posición.....quintullón......así lo he visto.

xzw
United States
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 40

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree MPGS: quintillón / sextillón (es un matiz!) ... :) ... :)
44 mins
  -> Gracias, MPGS.....XEN
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
miles de millares de billones de años

Explanation:
Un alterantiva más

++

trobador
Spain
Native speaker of: Native in CatalanCatalan, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
mil cuatrillones de años

Explanation:
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".

Alejandro Hopkins
United States
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
Thank you guys. I think this fits the text best. Thank you for all your help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree 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...!
2 mins
  -> In Spanish, a billion is a million million, not a thousand million like in English. A million million million million is a "cuatrillón"
agree Leopoldo Gurman
16 mins
agree lalinded
21 mins
agree MPGS: 100% :)
23 mins
agree pep
2 hrs
agree Juan Carlstein
2 hrs
agree Cecilia Della Croce
1 day10 hrs
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
10^27 años

Explanation:
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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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.

Richard Benham
France
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree MPGS: 10^27 is cool :) ... definetely!... :)
27 mins
  -> Thanks. At least it's arithmetically correct....
agree Yvonne Becker
9 hrs
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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
milcuatrillones

Explanation:
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 (:>)


    Reference: http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/entry.html?action=entryByCon...
marybro
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree 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.
15 mins
  -> 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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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
1 octillion years

Explanation:
Octillion
In the American system, 10^27.
FROM:http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Octillion.html

bigedsenior
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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