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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by theoh on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @04:55PM (#10229793)
But while "1" and "9" are the same order of magnitude, so are "1" and "0.1". To say something is within an order of magnitude of netflix, you cover a possible range from 0.1 to 10 times the Netflix catalog, a range which is ten times bigger if you consider the minimum and maximum sizes...
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by bostonpete on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @10:55PM (#10231326)
Um, 0.1 and 1 are not considered the same order of magnitude.
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by theoh on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:04PM (#10234133)
I was abbreviating. We're talking about an open end of the interval right?
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by noobermin on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @11:18PM (#10231404)
He didn't say "within an order of magnitude", he said, "the same order of magnitude." There is a difference.
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by theoh on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:26PM (#10234312)
So you think he meant within a factor of 3 and 1/3? That's not what the original netflix comment said.
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by noobermin on Thursday September 17, 2015 @09:43PM (#10237112)
"The same order of magnitude" means a multiplicative constant of a number from [1,10). 1/3 is decreasing by an order of magnitude. That is the typical usage in the sciences. Anyway, it's splitting hairs over something even less worthy of splitting hairs over.
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by dragonwriter on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:36PM (#10234391)
> But while "1" and "9" are the same order of magnitude, so are "1" and "0.1". To say something is within an order of magnitude of netflix, you cover a possible range from 0.1 to 10 times the Netflix catalog

"is same order of magnitude as" is not a transitive relationship.

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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by vorg on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:25PM (#10230665)
You seem to live in a base-tenny world. Many nerdies train themselves to do hex mental math in kindergarten, and the geekies do it base-36 because those extra letters "are there". So perhaps a 256 to 1296 multiplication ratio (those 2 numbers there are in base 10).
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by tlarkworthy on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @10:39PM (#10231282)
the order of magnitude is well known to be defined in base 10. That's regardless of your base of choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude

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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by ant6n on Thursday September 17, 2015 @10:19AM (#10233462)
I've only heard of people talk about binary orders of magnitude; hexadecimal no
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