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MadLegoChemist@startrek.website 11 months agoI was curious about this too. From random web searching (Syfy.com), the sun is 200,000 times brighter than the moon in the visible light region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I know human perception is logarithmic. I’m interested why it was thought it was 7x brighter. “Sevenfold as the seven days in one” it seems?
vala@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think sevenfold means
n^7notn*7.jsomae@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/sevenfold
n*7
MadLegoChemist@startrek.website 11 months ago
I didn’t know about logarithmic perception, that’s interesting! I bet you’re right about 7x being chosen due to the significance of the number seven in the Bible.