Re: Order of Magnitude

Subject: Re: Order of Magnitude
From: Katie Kearns <kkearns -at- cisco -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:36:36 -0700


At 02:12 PM 4/22/2002 -0500, you wrote:

Maybe it's industry-specific, but "order of magnitude" has always meant
"factor of ten" around here. Something that improves by merely 2-3 times
isn't an order of magnitude at all, but just "2-3 times faster."

Have fun,
Arlen

Or, you could say "2-3 fold".

Of course, if internationalization is important, I'd just say "2 or 3 times faster". ;)

-Katie


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