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Sentence #3653782

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Hybrid Hybrid November 23, 2014 November 23, 2014 at 11:50:31 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy some 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter, which contains 100–400 billion stars. (Wikipedia)

raggione raggione November 24, 2014 November 24, 2014 at 12:23:05 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

@hybrid
Thanks for your comment. As things stand, patgfisher's sentence is a translation of mine, which is one of Rado's Italian one, which just speaks of "cento milliardi", i.e. a hundred billion.

The three of us could get together and rectify things, though.

al_ex_an_der al_ex_an_der November 24, 2014 November 24, 2014 at 12:37:36 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #3653579Die Milchstraße besteht aus ungefähr hundert Milliarden von Sternen..

The Milky Way consists of hundreds of billions of stars.

added by patgfisher, November 23, 2014

The Milky Way consists of a hundred billion stars.

edited by patgfisher, November 23, 2014

The Milky Way consists of about a hundred billion stars.

edited by patgfisher, December 4, 2014