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Re:Race to discover Planet Nine using astronomy and new comp... by ryanx435 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:42AM (#14898155)
Maybe,maybe not. Depends on what base you are measuring magnitude in.

In base 10, 100x is 2 orders of magnitude.

In base 2, the same speed up (written in binary: 1100100x) is between 6 and 7 orders of magnitude.

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Re:Race to discover Planet Nine using astronomy and new comp... by Armisael16 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:45PM (#14912169)
No one means any base other than base 10 when they use that phrase in casual speech (without previously saying so).
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