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Re:Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, ... by anonymousiam on Sunday August 18, 2024 @02:23AM (#41280526)
I (Electrical + Software Engineer) once worked for a physicist who believed that anything less than an order of magnitude was merely an engineering problem. He was usually correct.
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Re:Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, ... by vasco on Sunday August 18, 2024 @02:35AM (#41280572)
I was taught the same. To not care a lot about things under an order of magnitude. Over the years when planning large software projects or assessing incidents and so on, the 1 order of magnitude threshold helped me often.
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Re:Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, ... by croemer on Sunday August 18, 2024 @04:57AM (#41281098)
Bingo, I studied Physics!
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Re:Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, ... by elashri on Sunday August 18, 2024 @06:31AM (#41281479)
As a physicist, I think this is correct too :). You don't start to see problems with things under that, unless they are deviation from standard model predictions.
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Re:Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, ... by sva_ on Sunday August 18, 2024 @10:31AM (#41282602)
Variance in accuracy of this statement also safely within one order of magnitude
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Re:Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, ... by bscphil on Sunday August 18, 2024 @04:34PM (#41285264)
An order of magnitude isn't a defined quantity, it depends on what base you're working in.
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Re:Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, ... by newaccount74 on Monday August 19, 2024 @01:03PM (#41292709)
The difference between log 2, ln, and log 10 is less than an order of magnitude, so to a physicist it's all the same :)
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