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wow. Off by millions of orders of magnitude, impressive!


Technically off by 6 orders of magnitude, or a factor of a million. Orders of magnitude are exponential - each order of magnitude is a factor of 10 more than the last, so you take the log10 of the factor of increase.


Til. thanks.




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