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> Spotify has about 100,000 uploaded tracks. Uh... That's off by an order of magnitude. 100 million tracks according to https://newsroom.spotify.com/company-in

> Spotify has about 100,000 uploaded tracks. Uh... That's off by an order of magnitude. 100 million tracks according to https://newsroom.spotify.com/company-info/ https://newsroom.spotify.com/company-info/

delecti 3y ago
That's 3 orders of magnitude.
- Lerc 3y ago
  Yeah but 3 is less than an order of magnitude, and we have already established that within an order of magnitude is acceptable. :-)
- CalRobert 3y ago
  Long scale clearly.
- Eduard 3y ago
  That's 3 _decimal_ orders of magnitude.
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- jcelerier 3y ago
  Hmm for me an order of magnitude when talking is 10^3, but checking online it seems like it might be a french thing
  - mrguyorama 3y ago
    Something related that might also catch you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
- marktani 3y ago
  for every difference there is one magnitude such that the difference is one order of the same /s
- avgcorrection 3y ago
  HN user: my income went up an order of magnitude last year (read: 20%) Same HN user: That’s wrong, the distance is an order of magnitude greater than that (read: 1050 times)
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