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I've usually heard it being used to describe powers of 10. I'd be willing to accept 14 orders of magnitude since we're talking about powers of 2, but I still ca
by contravariant 6y ago
I've usually heard it being used to describe powers of 10. I'd be willing to accept 14 orders of magnitude since we're talking about powers of 2, but I still can't figure out where they got 20 from. Hence my question.
- user5994461 6y agoOne billion is 14 orders. We're talking billionS, that's a fair bit more (pun intended).