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Re:Caltech to Launch Space Solar Power Technology Demo into ... by feoren on Thursday January 05, 2023 @04:10PM (#34266636)
> half an order of magnitude

Completely off-topic, but would "half an order of magnitude" be sqrt(10)? I've just never heard someone refer to a factor of ~3 as "half an order of magnitude".

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Re:Caltech to Launch Space Solar Power Technology Demo into ... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday January 05, 2023 @04:26PM (#34266857)
> just never heard someone refer to a factor of ~3 as "half an order of magnitude"

Last time I looked, the estimates ranged from 270% to 50x. Seeing the latter, my brain went into astronomer mode and then I guess just ran with it.

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Re:Caltech to Launch Space Solar Power Technology Demo into ... by roelschroeven on Thursday January 05, 2023 @04:22PM (#34266792)
Sqrt(10) is approximately 3.162278, that's close enough to 3.
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