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unusual facts about Order of magnitude


Order of magnitude

For example, the mass of the planet Saturn is 95 times that of Earth, so Saturn is two orders of magnitude more massive than Earth.



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Diallyllysergamide

In their book TiHKAL, Alexander and Ann Shulgin describe it as being "an order of magnitude less potent than LSD itself".

No Silver Bullet

Today's languages, such as C, C++, C# and Java, are considered to be improvements, but not of the same order of magnitude.

Scale length

Length scale (or "scale length"), a significant concept in physics used to define the order of magnitude of a system

Warren Gish

Gish also proposed multiplexing query sequences to speed up BLAST searches by an order of magnitude or more (MPBLAST); implemented segmented sequences with internal sentinel bytes, in part to aid multiplexing with MPBLAST and in part to aid analysis of segmented query sequences from shotgun sequencing assemblies;