A mathematical term used loosely to indicate tenfold differences between values. This concept is crucial to interpreting logarithmic scales such as pH or earthquake magnitude, where each number differs by a factor of 10, and two numbers differ by a...

An expression used to describe a quantity to its nearest power of ten. Reducing a quantity by one order of magnitude decreases it to a tenth; increasing it by one order of magnitude raises it...

An order of magnitude is the class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio to the class preceding it. The ratio most commonly used is...

As you read this, the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are roughly a month in the past. But as this is being written, on September 12, the smoke still emanates from the buildings, and the rescue...

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