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> not just double in size, not just be 10x larger

"An order of magnitude" usually refers to 10x. I interpreted it as being 10x off with his guess.



"several orders of magnitude" would imply at least 100x or 1000x, depending on how small you can interpret "several" to mean.


The dictionary packaged with OSX defines it as "more than two but not many", and the copy of an old edition of Webster's that I installed also defines it as "Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many". So we're probably looking at at least 1000x.




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