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• TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You have the right idea, and you are right in some regards. Generally the order of magnitude is an order of 10. That is, 1350 could be represented as 1.350×10³, so the order of magnitude is the third order of 10, which is 10³ (aka thousands).

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• SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Order of magnitude?

  It’s actually short for “to the order of”, as in 2 squared is 2 to the order of 2. i.e. same thing as Exponent or Index.

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