Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
2 miliardi di miliardi di miliardi
English translation:
2 billion billion billion/2 followed by 27 zeros
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Rachel Fell
Dec 19, 2007 18:09
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2 miliardi di miliardi di miliardi
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large number in English
This may not be in the right subject area, but can someone tell me how we would write this in English, please?
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| 4 +3 | 2 followed by 27 zeros |
Helen Matthews
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| 5 +1 | M ~ 2 x 1030 kg (mass of the sun = 1.98892 × 1030 kilograms) |
texjax DDS PhD
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| 4 | 2.000 Yt (duemila yotaton) |
Gian
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Dec 19, 2007 19:13: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters" to "Mathematics & Statistics"
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2 followed by 27 zeros
Just an idea: "The sun's mass is roughly 2 X 1027 tons. This number would be written out as a 2 followed by 27 zeros" from Nasa.gov website... I've never seen "billion billion billion" written out before, so perhaps you could get round it this way? (i.e. by writing it out in figures: 2000000000000000000000000000), or alternatively by 'converting' it to tons?
Note from asker:
| Thank you Helen - and thanks to Grace for great ref.! |
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Grace Anderson
: octillion http://www.mathonline.org/mathhelp/bignumbers.html
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thanks!
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writeaway
: glad I looked in-@ Grace-super ref-thanks!!
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| agree |
Ivana UK
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Gian
: 2 x 10^27 t e non 2 x 1027 t
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Comment: "Thank you - I know my version may be a bit of a lay way of writing it, but still!"
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M ~ 2 x 1030 kg (mass of the sun = 1.98892 × 1030 kilograms)
To measure the mass of the Sun would seem to be hard, but actually it is easy.
Newton's laws of motion together with his law of gravity give a relation among
the period P of a planet's orbit.
the distance a from the planet to the Sun.
a constant G measured in laboratory experiments.
the mass M of the Sun.
(For our purposes, assume the orbits are circles. Also assume that the mass of a planet is tiny compared to the mass of the Sun.)
The relation is
Using this relation with P and a for the Earth gives the mass of the Sun.
M ~ 2 x 1030 kg.
We will use this relation later on to get the masses of other stars.
It can also be used to get the masses of galaxies!
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Sun/mass.html
mass of the sun = 1.98892 × 1030 kilograms
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Newton's laws of motion together with his law of gravity give a relation among
the period P of a planet's orbit.
the distance a from the planet to the Sun.
a constant G measured in laboratory experiments.
the mass M of the Sun.
(For our purposes, assume the orbits are circles. Also assume that the mass of a planet is tiny compared to the mass of the Sun.)
The relation is
Using this relation with P and a for the Earth gives the mass of the Sun.
M ~ 2 x 1030 kg.
We will use this relation later on to get the masses of other stars.
It can also be used to get the masses of galaxies!
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Sun/mass.html
mass of the sun = 1.98892 × 1030 kilograms
http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/search?invocationType=chstrip&q...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-12-19 21:09:32 GMT)
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;-)
Note from asker:
| Thanks so much - maths isn't my forte ;-) Buone feste! |
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| agree |
Liliana Roman-Hamilton
: yeah, sounds like a BREEZE to figure that out!!! I need a double shot of booze just to understand that paragraph!// sure, LUV that!
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what 'bout an eggnog? Ciao cocca bella!
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2.000 Yt (duemila yotaton)
la massa solitamente è espressa in kg (1.000 g), ma può essere espressa in una unità multipla del kg, ovvero in tonnellate (t)
Nei prefissi del SI (sistema internazionale) 10^24 prende il nome di yota (simbolo Y)
quindi 2.000 Yt = 2 x 10^27 t
http://ku.wiktionary.org/wiki/ton
Nei prefissi del SI (sistema internazionale) 10^24 prende il nome di yota (simbolo Y)
quindi 2.000 Yt = 2 x 10^27 t
http://ku.wiktionary.org/wiki/ton
Note from asker:
| Thnak you for your answer too Gian. |
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