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		theoh on Sept 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place So you think he meant within a factor of 3 and 1/3? That's not what the original netflix comment said.

noobermin on Sept 18, 2015 [–]

"The same order of magnitude" means a multiplicative constant of a number from [1,10). 1/3 is decreasing by an order of magnitude. That is the typical usage in the sciences. Anyway, it's splitting hairs over something even less worthy of splitting hairs over.

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