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Old 02-08-2008, 11:00 AM
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Years ago, I had someone ask me to give him "an order of magnitude estimate". And I replied, "Wow that's the first time anyone has ever asked me for an estimate where I could be off by a factor of 10!" And of course he said, no "an order of magnitude estimate" is just a commonly used term for a rough estimate. I told him he was wrong and perhaps he should just use "rough estimate" instead of misusing mathematical concepts that he was unfamiliar with.
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