Orders of Magnitude Errors
This cluster revolves around comments correcting or mocking numerical mistakes involving orders of magnitude, particularly confusions between millions and billions or factors like 1000x off.
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I think you meant million instead of billion (ironic in a thread quibbling over orders of magnitude)
That's two orders of magnitude!
I'm pretty sure that the point here is order of magnitude, not differences after the comma.
They were only off by a couple orders of magnitude.. 10 vs 1000000000 is easy to confuse.
Closer to a hundred million fold :)
I see „millions“ on the scale, so maybe you meant billions?
You're off by a factor of 1,000.
Like six orders of magnitude matters...
You're off by a factor of 1000, I think.
Maybe you meant millions instead of billions?