Apr 11, 2021 01:54
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gallons per day
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Hello,
Could you please help me convert the following unit of measurement to the SI?
I have a translation, but the owner is asking me to convert 355,000 million gallons per day to cubic meter per second?
This is the text: "Total freshwater and saline-water withdrawals were estimated to be 355,000 million gallons per day (Mgal/d)".
Thank you very much
Could you please help me convert the following unit of measurement to the SI?
I have a translation, but the owner is asking me to convert 355,000 million gallons per day to cubic meter per second?
This is the text: "Total freshwater and saline-water withdrawals were estimated to be 355,000 million gallons per day (Mgal/d)".
Thank you very much
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47 mins
Daniel Delgado
Argentina
Argentina
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Works in field
Argentina
Technical translator, Chem.eng., IT pro
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Standard-Spain, Argentine, Latin American, Rioplatense)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish
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15550 metros cúbicos por segundo
See Excel calculation on the attached image. I included there other image with a check with the Google conversion (same result)
Being an engineer, I would round it to just 4 significative figures only: 15550 metros cúbicos por segundo
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Note added at 55 mins (2021-04-11 02:50:07 GMT)
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Same calculation done by a specialized site:
https://www.convertunits.com/from/million gallon/day [US]/to/cubic+meters/second
Attached image with result (the same)
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Note added at 1 hr (2021-04-11 02:58:05 GMT)
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355,000 only has 3 significant figures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures)
So the calculation shoud not show more than 3 or 4 significant figures. The other ones are called "spurious figures" (see that Wikipedia article), as they seem to add additional precision, which is false.
A quality translation takes this into account.
Being an engineer, I would round it to just 4 significative figures only: 15550 metros cúbicos por segundo
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Note added at 55 mins (2021-04-11 02:50:07 GMT)
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Same calculation done by a specialized site:
https://www.convertunits.com/from/million gallon/day [US]/to/cubic+meters/second
Attached image with result (the same)
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Note added at 1 hr (2021-04-11 02:58:05 GMT)
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355,000 only has 3 significant figures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures)
So the calculation shoud not show more than 3 or 4 significant figures. The other ones are called "spurious figures" (see that Wikipedia article), as they seem to add additional precision, which is false.
A quality translation takes this into account.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Excellent answer! Thank you. "
27 mins
David Hollywood
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worked for int. orgs (IMF, OAS, IDB)
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Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
15.5534859181
:)
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Note added at 30 mins (2021-04-11 02:24:48 GMT)
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=15.5534859181
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Note added at 35 mins (2021-04-11 02:29:50 GMT)
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355,000 million gallons per day = 15.5534859181 cubic meters per second
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Note added at 38 mins (2021-04-11 02:33:15 GMT)
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ahí tienes la conversión
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Note added at 41 mins (2021-04-11 02:36:10 GMT)
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tu pregunta gallons per day = galones por día por supuesto (pero no es lo que realmente quieres saber)
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Note added at 43 mins (2021-04-11 02:38:41 GMT)
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metros cúbicos por segundo
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Note added at 30 mins (2021-04-11 02:24:48 GMT)
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=15.5534859181
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Note added at 35 mins (2021-04-11 02:29:50 GMT)
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355,000 million gallons per day = 15.5534859181 cubic meters per second
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Note added at 38 mins (2021-04-11 02:33:15 GMT)
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ahí tienes la conversión
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Note added at 41 mins (2021-04-11 02:36:10 GMT)
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tu pregunta gallons per day = galones por día por supuesto (pero no es lo que realmente quieres saber)
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Note added at 43 mins (2021-04-11 02:38:41 GMT)
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metros cúbicos por segundo
48 mins
Marcelo Viera
Uruguay
Uruguay
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Uruguay
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15553.48
11
3.55 x 10 --------------------------------86400 seconds
x ------------------------------- 1 second
x= 4108796.3 gallons/sec x 3.78541 liters/gallon
-3
= 15553478.6 liters/sec x 10
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Note added at 54 mins (2021-04-11 02:48:45 GMT)
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Is this for your son´s homework ?
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Note added at 59 mins (2021-04-11 02:54:09 GMT)
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How many significant figures?
3.55 x 10 --------------------------------86400 seconds
x ------------------------------- 1 second
x= 4108796.3 gallons/sec x 3.78541 liters/gallon
-3
= 15553478.6 liters/sec x 10
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Note added at 54 mins (2021-04-11 02:48:45 GMT)
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Is this for your son´s homework ?
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Note added at 59 mins (2021-04-11 02:54:09 GMT)
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How many significant figures?
10 hrs
Marcelo Viera
Uruguay
Uruguay
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Uruguay
Technical Translations Specialist
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
galones por día
A fin de no trastocar el glosario la conversión la detallo a continuación:
3.55 por diez a la once son galones cada 86400 segundos (un día). Dividiendo la primer cifra entre 86400 obtengo galones por segundo.
Convierto dichos galones a litros multiplicando por 3.78541 litros/gallon obteniendo así los litros por segundos. Dado que 1 litro = 1 decímetro cúbico, para convertirlo a metros cúbicos debo dividir entre 1000 (o lo que es lo mismo, multiplicar por 10 a la menos 3 en el caso de utilizar la notación científica
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Note added at 10 hrs (2021-04-11 12:15:14 GMT)
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El resultado final es 15553.48 m al cubo sobre (slash) s
3.55 por diez a la once son galones cada 86400 segundos (un día). Dividiendo la primer cifra entre 86400 obtengo galones por segundo.
Convierto dichos galones a litros multiplicando por 3.78541 litros/gallon obteniendo así los litros por segundos. Dado que 1 litro = 1 decímetro cúbico, para convertirlo a metros cúbicos debo dividir entre 1000 (o lo que es lo mismo, multiplicar por 10 a la menos 3 en el caso de utilizar la notación científica
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Note added at 10 hrs (2021-04-11 12:15:14 GMT)
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El resultado final es 15553.48 m al cubo sobre (slash) s
14 hrs
Chema Nieto Castañón
Spain
Spain
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Spain
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English term (edited):
355000 million gallons per day
15 [18] mil metros cúbicos por segundo
1 metro cúbico = 264.172 galones (US)
1 metro cúbico = 219.969 galones imperiales (BrE)
1 día = 86400 segundos
US
355000 millones galones/día = 355000 millones metros cúbicos/264.172 x día/86400 = 15553,489000713 metro cúbicos/seg
BrE
= 355000 millones metros cúbicos/219.969 x día/86400 = 18678,978839274 metros cúbicos/seg
Así pues, la estimación a traducir podría plantearse como -en función de que los galones sean americanos o británicos;
US
15 mil metros cúbicos por segundo
15500 metros cúbicos por segundo
BrE
18 mil metros cúbicos por segundo
18600 metros cúbicos por segundo
1 metro cúbico = 219.969 galones imperiales (BrE)
1 día = 86400 segundos
US
355000 millones galones/día = 355000 millones metros cúbicos/264.172 x día/86400 = 15553,489000713 metro cúbicos/seg
BrE
= 355000 millones metros cúbicos/219.969 x día/86400 = 18678,978839274 metros cúbicos/seg
Así pues, la estimación a traducir podría plantearse como -en función de que los galones sean americanos o británicos;
US
15 mil metros cúbicos por segundo
15500 metros cúbicos por segundo
BrE
18 mil metros cúbicos por segundo
18600 metros cúbicos por segundo
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