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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Actually no, John Scalzi is the author that I was referring to. He's one of the few authors who will publicly break out his sales figures. He mentioned that the Data Guy was off by orders of magnitude in one of his blog post. He compared his actual sales figures with what was estimated and he sold almost twice as much.
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I think you are not being literal with that? Almost twice as much is maybe off by 1 order (singular, not plural) of magnitude when you have base 2 numbers. But assuming base 2 numbers is stretching it, even when digital data is talked about. Unless you specify the base of your number system (which is base 10 commonly by default if unspecified).