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24 million pixels across the two panels, orders of magnitude more than any headsets most consumers have come in contact with The Quest 2 has about 4 million, w
by sowbug 3y ago
24 million pixels across the two panels, orders of magnitude more than any headsets most consumers have come in contact with
The Quest 2 has about 4 million, which is undoubtedly more than 0.24 million. Has "order of magnitude" joined "exponential" as another math expression stolen as a synonym for "rilly rilly rilly"?
- olliej 3y agoBut in base 2 it’s many orders :D :D More seriously the repeated quote-the-marketing in this article was annoying. You’re explaining your use of it, and your experience is the only thing that matters. Everyone has read the specs at this point.
- lstamour 3y agoI think the problem is the plural. You could convincingly say that 24 is _an_ order of magnitude bigger than 4, even if technically log(24) is 1.38 … it’s a close enough approximation.
- 7e 3y agoIt's more than one order magnitude, less than two. So, plural!
- eesmith 3y agoIt's less than one order of magnitude. 4 million vs. 24 million is a factor of 6, not 10.
- pproe 3y agoI guess in that case you could still say its 0.6 orderS of magnitude... So not entirely false.
- eesmith 3y agoIt still wouldn't be 'more than one order magnitude'.
- shawabawa3 3y agoorders of magnitude don't have to be base 10 It's 2.5 more base 2 orders of magnitude
- kzrdude 3y ago4 vs 24 million is "about an order of magnitude", if you ask physics. We don't need to be accurate with that expression. And Log_10 (24/4) ≃ 0.78, it's not far away from 1.
- eesmith 3y agoUmm, I'm pointing out that 7e can't correctly say 'more than one order magnitude, less than two. So, plural!' Note the "more" and "plural". Even physicists say that one is not plural.
- tpmx 3y agoThe Quest 2 has about 7 million pixels across the two panels (1832 x 1920 x 2), so about 3x less than Apple Vision Pro. That's not a magnitude.
- hayst4ck 3y agoWhen you're talking about computer systems, it's pretty normal for a bit to represent an order of magnitude. Even the Wikipedia page makes reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude "Similarly, if the reference value is one of some powers of 2, since computers store data in a binary format, the magnitude can be understood in terms of the amount of computer memory needed to store that value. " int(log2(n)) is a perfectly acceptable order of magnitude, especially when considering computers, at least to me.
- geysersam 3y agoHahaha yes I'm sure that's what they meant.
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