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Hi everyone!! I wanted to know how scientific notation numbers are pronunced in english. E.g. 5x105, 2x108, or whatever! Thank you in advance!!
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As far as I understand, verbs enable/permit/allow are almost exclusively used in phrases like "permit somebody to do sth". Is the use "permit (etc.) doing sth" also acceptable? In my own language (Polish) the "somebody" part is only used if it _really_ matters. This gives me problems translating...
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It's like chasing one's tail. Non sono convinto che "cane che si morde la coda" sia l'espressione corretta da usare in quel contesto.
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Climate Fresk encourages the rapid and widespread spread of an understanding of climate issues. The efficiency of the teaching tool, the collaborative experience and the user licence have contributed to the exponential growth of Climate Fresk.
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Yes, I wasn't casting doubt on the existence of the word, but when I studied maths at school we certainly knew the words exponent and exponential, but never exponentiation.
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Hello! I know for sure the difference between "to be quick to do something" and "to do something quickly". I would like to know the difference between "to be slow to do something" and "to do something slowly" or there's no difference at all. I would be glad to receive your answers.
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Secondly, when you move the power expression, the exponent changes sign: it could go from positive to negative or from negative to positive. A correct statement would be: When an exponential function is moved from the numerator to the denominator, or vice versa, the exponent changes sign.
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Well, around here, most people are almost illiterate regarding the exponential notation of numbers, so not many (really very few) would understand your 340x10 36, although I think that many more would understand "340 sixtillones".
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"Explosively" is a metaphor for sudden increase. Exponential growth has a sharper definition, e.g. The number of infections is doubling every month. An explosion could be a short spurt; the get equivalence, one might say, "a continuing explosion of cases."
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123 followed by 27 zeros [how do you read this number?]
It is unlikely that anyone would actually read or write this but: One hundred and twenty three octillion. In English we write numbers in groups of three separated by commas. Thus, 123,000,000 would be one hundred and twenty three million. The original number could be written as 123 x 10 27 or 1.23 x 10 29