Powers of Ten "Much of the world operates in powers of 10."...No, much of the world functions on a scale of such magnitude that humans have devised a collapsed way of quantifying it using smaller numbers. Using logrhythmical scales such as decibels or pH means we don't have to try to grasp numbers greater than 10.
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Powers of Ten
"Much of the world operates in powers of 10."...No, much of the world functions on a scale of such magnitude that humans have devised a collapsed way of quantifying it using smaller numbers. Using logrhythmical scales such as decibels or pH means we don't have to try to grasp numbers greater than 10.