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Topic: Orders of magnitude

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1 E39 kg

Scientific notation

1 E12 K

Magnitude

Exponent

1 E17 m

Engineering notation

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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Orders of magnitude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thus, an order of magnitude is an approximate position on a logarithmic scale.
		An order of magnitude estimate of a variable whose precise value is unknown is an estimate rounded to the nearest power of ten.
		For example, an order of magnitude estimate for a variable between about 3 billion and 30 billion (such as the human population of the Earth) is 10 billion.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Orders_of_magnitude (631 words)

	Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The pages linked in the right-hand column contain lists of times that are of the same order of magnitude (power of ten).
		Rows in the table represent increasing powers of a thousand (3 orders of magnitude).
		This page was last modified 13:37, 21 July 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(time) (162 words)

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