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That's the same as saying "the same order of magnitude"
by ghgr 11y ago
That's the same as saying "the same order of magnitude"
- theoh 11y agoBut while "1" and "9" are the same order of magnitude, so are "1" and "0.1". To say something is within an order of magnitude of netflix, you cover a possible range from 0.1 to 10 times the Netflix catalog, a range which is ten times bigger if you consider the minimum and maximum sizes...
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- vorg 11y agoYou seem to live in a base-tenny world. Many nerdies train themselves to do hex mental math in kindergarten, and the geekies do it base-36 because those extra letters "are there". So perhaps a 256 to 1296 multiplication ratio (those 2 numbers there are in base 10).
- tlarkworthy 11y agothe order of magnitude is well known to be defined in base 10. That's regardless of your base of choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude
- ant6n 11y agoI've only heard of people talk about binary orders of magnitude; hexadecimal no
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- bostonpete 11y agoUm, 0.1 and 1 are not considered the same order of magnitude.
- theoh 11y agoI was abbreviating. We're talking about an open end of the interval right?
- noobermin 11y agoHe didn't say "within an order of magnitude", he said, "the same order of magnitude." There is a difference.
- theoh 11y agoSo you think he meant within a factor of 3 and 1/3? That's not what the original netflix comment said.
- noobermin 11y ago"The same order of magnitude" means a multiplicative constant of a number from [1,10). 1/3 is decreasing by an order of magnitude. That is the typical usage in the sciences. Anyway, it's splitting hairs over something even less worthy of splitting hairs over.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> But while "1" and "9" are the same order of magnitude, so are "1" and "0.1". To say something is within an order of magnitude of netflix, you cover a possible range from 0.1 to 10 times the Netflix catalog "is same order of magnitude as" is not a transitive relationship.