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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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.
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And how was that in this case in any way better than just typing the word double?