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Kodegadulo (Visa profilen) 14 september 2011 04:11:40
1.234 x 10^56
In English we'd pronounce this "one point two three four times ten to the fifty-sixth power". What's the equivalent formulation in Esperanto?
Also, what's the Esperanto translation for the term "scientific notation"? I hazarded a guess that it was "scienca nombresprimo".
geo63 (Visa profilen) 14 september 2011 06:02:55
scientific notation = scienca skribmaniero
sudanglo (Visa profilen) 14 september 2011 10:38:41
I would have thought that 10 je la potenco de 56 would be fine.
On the next page, PAG gives a to the x as 'iksgrada a' or 'ikspotenca a'
So it seems that there are various possibilities for referring to powers of a number.
As someone has already replied to your question in the Esperanto forums, the Esperanto convention for the decimal point is komo (eg 2.5, two and a half, is du komo kvin).
Dot, as when speaking of web addresses, is punkto (eg Lernu punkto net).
For 'multiplied by' you could use 'oble' or 'multiplikite de', or variants.
I quite like (for 1.234 x 10^56) unu komo du tri kvar obligita per dek je la potenco kvindek ses.
Although, probably, most people would say du dividita de tri for two divided by three, I quite like the use of 'per' rather than 'de' for complex mathematical operations, such as your example.
sudanglo (Visa profilen) 14 september 2011 11:13:23
So, if you want to be 'skemisma' you could say scienca (skrib)signaro, but it is quite likely that many European languages have a word like 'notacio' - the French use the same word as we do.
darkweasel (Visa profilen) 14 september 2011 11:16:20
sudanglo:As do German speakers.
So, if you want to be 'skemisma' you could say scienca (skrib)signaro, but it is quite likely that many European languages have a word like 'notacio' - the French use the same word as we do.
marcley93 (Visa profilen) 2 mars 2016 21:15:28
Go to this link and scroll down to 10^66 and 10^69.
Vortoj por grandegaj nombroj
So 1,234 x 10^56 [1.234 x 10^56 in the English system] would be expressed as "unu como du tri kvar oble dek alt kvindek ses".