Order of magnitude

Posted by R. Berg March 04, 2002In reply to Order of magnitude posted by honnibal on March 04, 2002

Anybody can tell me what is the quantitative measure of an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE? Or is there one?

Thanx in advance.

Just ignore those silly people below. They have pitiful attention spans. "Order of magnitude" doesn't refer to a measure, like yards or liters. Basically, it means a multiple of ten. If I think my checking account contains $975 and the bank thinks it contains $97.50, one of us is off by an order of magnitude, probably me. If I think $975 and the bank thinks $9.75, that difference is two orders of magnitude.