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Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project? — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0 (www.techradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In the context odds are that Ace is using "orders of magnitude more" simply to convey "multiple times more", or "a fuckload more"

That said I always understood orders of magnitude as log rounded to the units:

log₁₀(73M) = 7.86
log₁₀(2.1B) = 9.32
9.32 - 7.86 = 1.45 ≃ 1

If you're rounding it to a single digit you'd get 1, or one order of magnitude. It isn't too far from being rounded to 2, if Reddit shrinks back to 66M.