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Old 01-29-2018, 07:13 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I'm afraid I must respectfully disagree. The term "order of magnitude" has a precise meaning - certainly in the worlds of science and mathematics. It means "a factor of 10" and nothing else. If I write "3 orders of magnitude", I mean "a factor of 1000". To suggest that a difference of less than double can be described as "orders of magnitude" different is misleading at best.
Sorry if you don't like it, but it is a fairly common usage and I did give you a reference to a dictionary using the phrase in that manner.
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