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orders usually means 2 or more
by cma 6y ago
orders usually means 2 or more
- mattkrause 6y agoAlso the actual values were 4-5x (12 or 15 versus 3 cycles), adjusted up to 10x for pipelining.
- cma 6y ago10X is one order of magnitude, 100X is two.
- mattkrause 6y agoIndeed...and 4 to 5x is less than that! My clumsily-made point was that there were two sets of numbers in the GP, and the smaller is unambiguously less than one order of magnitude different.
- Y_Y 6y agoThis depends on context. more often (in my experience) people are using base 10 , but also sometimes 2 or e. Even still people (unfortunately) use "orders of magnitude" like "exponential growth", signifying something like "wow, a lot, but no idea how much".
- bloak 6y agoAnd for astronomers an order of magnitude can sometimes be 100^(1/5) =~ 2.512. I hate it, too, when people call a quadratic curve "exponential".