Order of magnitude is a concept used to discuss the scale of numbers in relation to one another. Two numbers are "within an order of magnitude" of each...
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direction Magnitude (mathematics), the relative size of an object Norm (mathematics), a term for the size or length of a vector Order of magnitude, the class...
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This list compares various energies in joules (J), organized by order of magnitude. The joule is named after James Prescott Joule. As with every SI unit...
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An order of magnitude of time is usually a decimal prefix or decimal order-of-magnitude quantity together with a base unit of time, like a microsecond...
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formally, an object's magnitude is the displayed result of an ordering (or ranking) of the class of objects to which it belongs. Magnitude as a concept dates...
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The table lists various objects and units by the order of magnitude of their volume. Gerald H. Ristow (2000). Pattern Formation in Granular Materials...
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the number of constituents (e.g. atoms or molecules) in one mole of a substance, defined for convenience as expressing the order of magnitude separating...
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The following are examples of orders of magnitude for different lengths. To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various...
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Cost estimate (redirect from Rough order of magnitude)
American Society of Professional Estimators (ASPE) defines estimate levels in the reverse order as Level 1 – Order (Range) of Magnitude, Level 2 – Schematic/Conceptual...
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An order of magnitude is an approximation of the logarithm of a value relative to some contextually understood reference value. Orders of magnitude may...
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Most ordinary human activity takes place at temperatures of this order of magnitude. Circumstances where water naturally occurs in liquid form are shown...
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Angular velocity (redirect from Order of magnitude (angular velocity))
axis of rotation and how fast the axis itself changes direction. The magnitude of the pseudovector, ω = ‖ ω ‖ {\displaystyle \omega =\|{\boldsymbol {\omega...
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This article lists example sizes of binary units of information both in base-10 that is typical for order of magnitude, as well as base-2 which is more...
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informally used to mean the number of significant figures, in increasing order of accuracy, or to the order of magnitude. However, this may be confusing...
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Viscosity (redirect from Orders of magnitude (viscosity))
molecules. Observed values of viscosity vary over several orders of magnitude, even for common substances (see the order of magnitude table below). For instance...
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Mining feasibility study (section Order of magnitude)
feasibility study used in mining, order of magnitude, preliminary feasibility and detailed feasibility. Order of magnitude feasibility studies (sometimes...
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question, Fermi estimate), also known as an order-of-magnitude problem (or order-of-magnitude estimate, order estimation), is an estimation problem in physics...
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Introversion Software (redirect from Order of Magnitude (video game))
(cancelled) Chronometer (optioned but not developed) Wrong Wire (cancelled) Order of Magnitude (cancelled) Spacebots (cancelled) Megaprocessor (cancelled) Voxel...
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a list of stars arranged by their apparent magnitude – their brightness as observed from Earth. It includes all stars brighter than magnitude +2.50 in...
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undertaken by an order of magnitude. Players attempt to achieve world domination by utilizing the powers of their chosen Illuminati (the Adepts of Hermes, the...
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Seismic magnitude scales are used to describe the overall strength or "size" of an earthquake. These are distinguished from seismic intensity scales that...
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This list compares various amounts of computing power in instructions per second organized by order of magnitude in FLOPS. Scientific E notation index:...
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Brandolini's law (category Communication of falsehoods)
needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. The rise of easy popularization of ideas through the internet has...
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Benford's law (redirect from Law of first digits)
hand, a distribution mostly or entirely within one order of magnitude (e.g., IQ scores or heights of human adults) is unlikely to satisfy Benford's law...
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By most calculations, the eruption of Tambora was at least a full order of magnitude (10 times) larger than that of Mount Pinatubo in 1991.(Graft et al...
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Dynamo theory (redirect from Creation of charge theory)
relations can still be used to deduce orders of magnitude of the quantities in question. In terms of order of magnitude, J B ∼ ρ Ω u {\displaystyle \;J\,B\sim...
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Scale analysis (mathematics) (redirect from Order of magnitude analysis)
Scale analysis (or order-of-magnitude analysis) is a powerful tool used in the mathematical sciences for the simplification of equations with many terms...
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technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude [tenfold] improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability...
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11 : 11, 9, 1 13 : 13, 1 The order of 1 is 1, the orders of 3 and 5 are 6, the orders of 9 and 11 are 3, and the order of 13 is 2. Thus, 3 and 5 are the...
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the distributive adjective is denary. Increasing a quantity by one order of magnitude is most widely understood to mean multiplying the quantity by ten...
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