La palabra del día:
el billón
Pronunciación aproximada:
bee-YOHN Listen
Significado:
1,000,000,000,000, trillion in American English, billion in British English
Ejemplo:
Incluso un superordenador tendrá 149 billón años para descifrar un cifrado AES de 128 bits.
Traducción:
Even a supercomputer will take 149,000,000,000,000 years to decipher a 128-bit AES encryption.
Aviso:
Because of the influence of American English, especially in Latin America, the Spanish word billón is sometimes used to mean 1,000,000,000.
However, this usage is considered substandard and is not recognized by the Royal Spanish Academy. The recognized way to express that number is mil millones (a thousand million).
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el billón
Pronunciación aproximada:
bee-YOHN Listen
Significado:
1,000,000,000,000, trillion in American English, billion in British English
Ejemplo:
Incluso un superordenador tendrá 149 billón años para descifrar un cifrado AES de 128 bits.
Traducción:
Even a supercomputer will take 149,000,000,000,000 years to decipher a 128-bit AES encryption.
Aviso:
Because of the influence of American English, especially in Latin America, the Spanish word billón is sometimes used to mean 1,000,000,000.
However, this usage is considered substandard and is not recognized by the Royal Spanish Academy. The recognized way to express that number is mil millones (a thousand million).
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