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by feoren 1263 days ago
> half an order of magnitude

Completely off-topic, but would "half an order of magnitude" be sqrt(10)? I've just never heard someone refer to a factor of ~3 as "half an order of magnitude".

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> just never heard someone refer to a factor of ~3 as "half an order of magnitude"

Last time I looked, the estimates ranged from 270% to 50x. Seeing the latter, my brain went into astronomer mode and then I guess just ran with it.

Sqrt(10) is approximately 3.162278, that's close enough to 3.