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100M is an order of magnitude more than 60M, by definition. "order of magnitude" doesn't mean "ten times as much", it means "you have to use another column to d
by vacri 10y ago
100M is an order of magnitude more than 60M, by definition. "order of magnitude" doesn't mean "ten times as much", it means "you have to use another column to describe it"... and so 1x10^8 is an order of magnitude more than 6x10^7...
- colechristensen 10y agoYou're just wrong. Here are three sources that say an order of magnitude means ten times as much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/order-of-magnitude http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/order-of-magnitude http://www.thefreedictionary.com/order+of+magnitude http://www.thefreedictionary.com/order+of+magnitude
- vacri 10y agoEach of those links say that it can be used both ways. I was wrong that it wasn't used the OP's way, but not wrong in my own definition of it.
- dragonwriter 10y agoan order of magnitude conventionally means an approximate power of 10; the implicit accuracy of the approximation is such that n orders of magnitude means a multiple between 10^(n-0.5) and 10^(n+0.5).