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To: Southack
In Binary you'd represent Base 2 as 10, while Base 4 would be 100.
100 is a single order of magnitude larger than 10, FYI...

Sigh. "An order of magnitude" commonly refers to a ratio of ten, not two (unless you're talking about brightness of stars, where they use a ratio of six--don't ask me why.) 10010 is an order of magnitude larger than 1010, but 1002 is .3 orders of magnitude larger than 102, because 4/2 = 2, and log102 is about 0.30103. (When dealing with different number bases, the convention is to write numbers with the base, in base ten, as a subscript.)

273 posted on 02/16/2003 2:46:05 PM PST by jejones
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To: jejones

10010 is an order of magnitude larger than 1010, but 1002 is .3 orders of magnitude larger than 102, because 4/2 = 2, and log102 is about 0.30103.

And what is Log2 2?

280 posted on 02/16/2003 2:59:29 PM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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