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>Am I the only person that gets annoyed when I read "an order of magnitude" and the article doesn't mention whether it’s binary or decimal I thought I was the
by pvnick 12y ago
>Am I the only person that gets annoyed when I read "an order of magnitude" and the article doesn't mention whether it’s binary or decimal
I thought I was the only one! Seriously, that kind of ambiguity is on par with the imperial/metric issues that destroyed the Mars climate orbiter back in '99.
- nthj 12y agoConversations would be very tedious if we did not permit ourselves to rely on conventions.
- goodcanadian 12y agoI've always understood "an order of magnitude" to be between double and ten times. It is meant as shorthand to mean "several times" with no intention of any kind of precision.