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Re:Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet by travisjungroth on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:20PM (#22529314)
Yeah, I'm not sure why I was downvoted. It was a leading question to point out that "3 orders of magnitude" isn't far away at all.
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Re:Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet by FabHK on Monday March 09, 2020 @05:49PM (#22530213)
From the statistics I’ve seen, unless there’s effective quarantine and countermeasures in effect, you can expect an order of magnitude (while most of the population is not yet infected, obviously) about every 2 to 3 weeks. Yay for exponential growth.
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Re:Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet by virgilp on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @03:01AM (#22533352)
So how many weeks for 10 orders of magnitude? Because it feels like you extrapolate linearly...
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