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"orders of magnitude" : Why does anyone ever write "two orders of magnitude" when 100x is shorter? Of course, this presumes 10 as the magnitude and the N orde
by jjtheblunt 4y ago
"orders of magnitude" :
Why does anyone ever write "two orders of magnitude" when 100x is shorter?
Of course, this presumes 10 as the magnitude and the N orders to be the exponent, but I don't think I've ever, since the 90s, seen that stilted phrasing ever used for a base other than 10.
- IshKebab 4y agoBecause two orders of magnitude does not mean 100x. It means on the same order as 100x.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoDo you mean folks using the phrase know big-O, big-omega, big-theta, and are thinking along those lines?
- IshKebab 4y agoIt's nothing to do with big-O; it's about logarithms. But really I think most people using it just think of it like: "which of these is it closest to? 10x, 100x or 1000x?"