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It's a vague term as: Other orders of magnitude may be calculated using bases other than 10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude

In base 2, 2x = 1 order of magnitude 8x = 3 orders of magnitude. Worse both informal definitions are in common usage.



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