What is order of magnitude?
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It is an approximate way of measuring how big or bright or heavy something is.\n\nThe term comes from the brightness of stars. The brightest star in the sky is Sirius and there are about another dozen almost as bright (Vega, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse etc) that are collectively known as first magnitude stars. Not quite so bright are the second magnitude stars (eg a coupl of stars in The Plough are 2nd Magnitude, and so on down to the 5th and 6th magnitude stars, such as members of The Pleiades, which are only visible to the naked eye on bright, clear nights. And then even fainter stars that can only be seen with binoculars or a small telescope or a huge radio telescope.\n\nThe point is that star brightness is described in categories, in bands, which share similar properties eg "only able to be seen when there is a full moon out" or "supernovae". And it doesn't need to be more precise than that.\n\nThe phrase "to the nearest order of magnitude" is used widely outside of astronomy to indicate an approximate idea of what to expect, eg "How big a fine will I get for a parking offence? £100?"\n\nThe questioner is wanting to be reassured it is not £1,000 but more like £50 - £150.
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Abstemious for ascending order\nSuncontinental for descending order
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Eathquakes' intensities are generally measured on the Richter Scale which is a type of logarithmic scale. This scale is not linear and every successive whole number (1,2,3,4...) is 10 times its preceding whole number.\nThus a 7.0 earthquake will be 10 times in magnitude to a 6.0 one. And 8.0 would be 100 times 6.0
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It's called a unit element, because anything times 1\nequals itself.
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The correct term is "order statistic" which is the set of values arranged in order of magnitude.  Also a set of successive components with identical values though is called a "run".\n\nProgression is term used in sequences and series.
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order of operation - parenthesis, power, multi/divide, and add/subtract
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This question is extremely confused/confusing!  For one thing, the speed of light (exceedable only by warp drive) is wavelength TIMES frequency, not wavelength OVER frequency, as implied by two of your lines.  Any Starfleet Academy student should know that.\n\nIgnoring that, I THINK that the nub of your question is this: presumably v/c is small in the original question that you must have been asked.  Call that small value x.  Then, for small x, a BINOMIAL SERIES expansion (NOT a Taylor expansion) tells you that \n(1 + x)^(-1) is approximately 1 - x, ignoring terms of order x^2 and higher.\n\nLive long and prosper.
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X times Y^Z\nexample\n1 x 10^8.3 = magnitude 8.3 quake
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A to the power of n is:\n\nA * A * A ... n times.\n\nor\n\n1 * A * A * A ... n times.\n\nsince n is 0, w're left with\n1.\n\n--\n\nbut really it's defined to be 1.
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I do not know since I haven't read the book. But I have come across a web page that explains the numbers as such:\n\nThe first number is Ν (nu), and it is huge. It measures the strength of the electrical forces that hold atoms together, divided by the force of gravity between them.\n\nAnother number is Ε (epsilon), whose value is 0.007. This defines how firmly atomic nuclei bind together and how all the atoms on earth were made.\n\nThe cosmic number Ω (omega) measures the amount of material in our universe. \n\nThe next number is the cosmological constant, Λ (lambda), which measures the cosmic repulsion. Our existence requires that Λ should not have been too large.\n\nHow tightly stars and galaxies are held together can be expressed as a ratio between the force of gravity and the amount of energy needed to disperse them. This ratio is the fifth number, Q (Q, of course).\n\nThe sixth number is the number of spatial dimensions in our world, Δ (delta).\n\nHope this helps.
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A convenient way of using very large and very small numbers in chemistry is to use "scientific notation".  Any number can be represented as a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by 10 to the right power.  Example:  3,000 can be written as 3.000 x 10^3, where "^" means "to the power of".  10^3 is 1,000.
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what is your birth order?
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I know it has already been answered but I"ll take a chance with something different. Ok 3 to the third power plus two would be 3 to the fifth power which is 243.\n :)
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Volume is L * W * H ... if the Volumen is 1000^3 and it's a cube, then L, W and H all = 1000cm\n\nDuh.
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Since the Richter scale is logarithmic, a 6.0 earthquake would have a relative magnitude of 10^6 (1,000,000), while a 7.0 earthquake would be represented by 10^7 (10,000,000), or ten times stronger.
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The degree is the highest exponent on the variable.\nThe exponent of x is one.\nThus, the degree of 4x is 1.
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the answer is exponents.