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^ found the astronomer
by dgoldstein0 2y ago
^ found the astronomer
- anonymousiam 2y agoI (Electrical + Software Engineer) once worked for a physicist who believed that anything less than an order of magnitude was merely an engineering problem. He was usually correct.
- vasco 2y agoI was taught the same. To not care a lot about things under an order of magnitude. Over the years when planning large software projects or assessing incidents and so on, the 1 order of magnitude threshold helped me often.
- croemer 2y agoBingo, I studied Physics!
- elashri 2y agoAs a physicist, I think this is correct too :). You don't start to see problems with things under that, unless they are deviation from standard model predictions.
- sva_ 2y agoVariance in accuracy of this statement also safely within one order of magnitude
- bscphil 2y agoAn order of magnitude isn't a defined quantity, it depends on what base you're working in.
- newaccount74 2y agoThe difference between log 2, ln, and log 10 is less than an order of magnitude, so to a physicist it's all the same :)