Astronomer: yeah, my favorite number is also, 1, 2, or 10, whichever way you prefer to write it.https://twitter.com/casuallye/status/1001989219965915136 …
Are there second-order terms like order of magnitude? Like, something that covers 1e1-1e10?
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"Oh, it's a trillion not a thousand? Well, I was within the same order-of-order-of-magnitude"
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I’ve definitely heard people talk about “within a factor of 2” for a quantity that was already a logarithm of the physical variable, but not sure there’s a good term for this. Order of magnitude of the exponent?
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