order of magnitudes

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Orders of magnitude are used to make approximate comparisons. If numbers differ by one order of magnitude, x is about ten times different in quantity than y. … Two numbers of the same order of magnitude have roughly the same scale: the larger value is less than ten times the smaller value.

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