• Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    8 months ago

    In the context odds are that Ace is using “orders of magnitude more” simply to convey “multiple times more”, or “a fuckload more”

    That said I always understood orders of magnitude as log rounded to the units:

    • log₁₀(73M) = 7.86
    • log₁₀(2.1B) = 9.32
    • 9.32 - 7.86 = 1.45 ≃ 1

    If you’re rounding it to a single digit you’d get 1, or one order of magnitude. It isn’t too far from being rounded to 2, if Reddit shrinks back to 66M.