🚀 go-pugleaf

Joe Sloan spewed forth the following profound insight:

==> In article <403nll$ijj@seminole.gate.net>,
==> Chad Irby <cirby@news.gate.net> wrote:
==> >Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
==> >: Who cares?  Today, there are orders of magnitude more typewriter users
==> >: than Mac users. 
==> >
==> >Well, no.  To have "orders of magnitude" more typewriter users than Mac 
==> >users, you'd have to have 100 times as many typewriter users than Mac 
==> >users.  There are about 20 million Mac users (at least- assuming *only* 
==> >one user per Mac).  That would mean 2 *billion* typewriter users.  Or one 
==> >out of three people in the world using typewriters.  Don't bet on it.

==> You have made the naive assumption that Dan meant "orders" in base 10.
==> Using base 2, a 4-fold advantage would qualify as "orders of magnitude"... 

...as well as the naive assumption of an integer number of orders of 
magnitude.  The number of "orders" could be any real number greater than 1
and still be grammatically correct.  1.1 orders of magnitude in base 2 is
about 41.4 million.

   					-Caj may be just one person, but
					 he's -7.3010 orders of magnitude
					 more than all the Mac Users in 
					 the world!!!