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Re:Report: PR Firm Has Been Paying Rotten Tomatoes Critics f... by user3939382 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @06:36PM (#37426571)
Orders of magnitude is used as an expression, no need to “hackthually” someone about it.
Re:Report: PR Firm Has Been Paying Rotten Tomatoes Critics f... by evujumenuk on Thursday September 07, 2023 @06:53PM (#37426764)
I am always fascinated by people insisting on base 10 orders of magnitude, which introduces an anthropocentric component to many quantifications where it arguably doesn't make a lot of sense.

If you take the natural choice of base, e, then "orders of magnitude" would only imply Todd to be 7.39 times better, which he is in many cases — for example, by measuring the self-information of reviews — and he may even cross that threshold in the aggregate.