ORDEROFMAGNITUDE
Order of magnitude
An order of magnitude is a scale of numbers with a fixed ratio, often rounded to the nearest ten.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Order of magnitude
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order of magnitude
Noun
- The class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio (most often 10) to the class preceding it. For example, something that is 2 orders of magnitude larger is 100 times larger, something that is 3 orders of magnitude larger is 1000 times larger, and something that is 6 orders of magnitude larger is a million times larger, because <math>10^2</math> = 100, <math>10^3</math> = 1000, and <math>10^6</math> = a million.
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