Re: Meeting at Harvey Mudd College

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 09:35 4/17/01 -0700, John Mallinckrodt wrote:
> ... and for those of you on the south left coast you might
> consider the So Cal Section AAPT meeting this weekend (21 April)
> at Harvey Mudd College.  We have workshops in the morning, invited
> and contributed talks, a buffet lunch, "Show'n Tell," the "Order
> of Magnitude Question," and door prizes at the end of the meeting.
> The detailed program can be obtained at
>
> <http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm/myweb/scaapt/program_sp01.pdf>
>
> John Mallinckrodt
> Editor, Southern California section AAPT

Wish I could be there. The "Order of Magnitude Question" is specially
tantalizing. I would be glad to hear some commentary on the topic.

I have been thinking of the order of magnitude as representing
an increment of the power of ten, so I have mentally placed bounds on
an order of magnitude estimate at about X 0.32 and X 3.2

But what should it mean?

According to UTM,
 x+7 and 34x have the same order of magnitude, and if I take
x = 100, then 107 and 3400 miserably fail my bounds test.

:-)


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
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