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'Alas, it is not so
easy . . . With a
few notable
exceptions, we of
the press are
arithmetical
numbskulls. We
probably were born
that way.'
no longer be evaded. The gentleman asks, “Is it just another — more pretentious — way of saying ‘a large amount’ or ’a lot’?”
Well, yes. The court has an uneasy feeling that writers who write of “an order of magnitude” are the same writers who suppose that a parameter is a boundary.
After consulting with a consultant, the court will say only that the term comes out of astronomy, as a measure of rating the brightness of stars. Orders of magnitude are
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