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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's a little contradictory. An "order of magnitude" is a factor of ten. Selling "almost twice as much" is not a difference that is "orders of magnitude".
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Not always. It's not really a precise term. Here is the first definition of Order of Magnitude that Google picks up.
"a class in a system of classification determined by size, each class being a number of times (usually ten) greater or smaller than the one before."
In common usage, many people are simply referring to a rather large difference, as I was in this case.