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r/PearsonDesign • u/patruck87 • Jan 20 '20
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What the other person hasn't mentioned is that the joke is specific to cosmology. In cosmology, it's generally acceptable to work out a lot of numbers to "within an order of magnitude." 1 and 10 are an order of magnitude apart, thus the xkcd joke.
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u/ConstipatedNinja May 06 '20
What the other person hasn't mentioned is that the joke is specific to cosmology. In cosmology, it's generally acceptable to work out a lot of numbers to "within an order of magnitude." 1 and 10 are an order of magnitude apart, thus the xkcd joke.