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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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