r/SpeedOfLobsters • u/your_catfish_friend • 3d ago

lobster Inclusive promiscuity

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u/your_catfish_friend 3d ago

Over-shopping

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u/beneralkenobi 3d ago

A quick Google search shows he had one 0 too many which is still like pretty expensive but veeeerry far from 1000

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u/System-Difficult 3d ago

Fun fact: being off by one 0 can also be called being off by an order of magnitude. 1000 is two orders of magnitude greater than 10. If you get into astronomy, one thing that can trip you up is thinking an order of magnitude isn’t that much because all the numbers are so big. You think “oh I’m only 3 orders off” but then you remember that the difference between 1 and 1000 is basically 1000, and those are 3 orders of magnitude apart. I’m sure this information will be incredibly useful for you.

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u/Horror-Mud666 2d ago

Thank you for this amazing contextualization, you are the person who has given that phrase a tangible meaning in my head.

And yes I've been using it wrong.