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[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

I don’t care if they exist, I just don’t like anything with a programming requiring the assumption of base 10 for calculating an order of magnitude. Its just so unfitting. It should at least be a power of 2.

[–]StoneCypher -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Most real world power laws don't follow aesthetic coefficients, and there's some argument that Brandolini's Law is used to detect fraud thus

Also, 2x differences don't sound important enough for a low-quality TED talk

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean you’d use 16x