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This 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 m
by Y_Y 6y ago
This 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".