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Coding chess (lemmy.world)
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[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

10^24 is a lot bigger than 6×10^23

Well yeah it’s almost double, but I wrote the comment as a mental estimation of the order of magnitude, so it doesn’t change the substance of the discussion.

I mean at the beginning I arbitrarily picked a number in that 10^40 to 10^44 range and that’s a factor of 1:10,000 rather than 1:2, lol.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Slightly less than double, actually. (Doesn't really change the meat of the argument or anything though.)

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 4 months ago

yeah yeah, cosmological approximations and all that, but there's still a bit of difference between "planetoid" and "gas giant" :P