Orders of Magnitude Explained
Aug. 15th, 2006 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythOkay, first, click this link to the CIA World Factbook about Account Balances.
Now, scroll all the way to the bottom. See how the negative number there is ten times bigger than the number above it? That's an order of magnitude.
That's also how much money we owed the rest of the world last year.
Now, scroll all the way to the bottom. See how the negative number there is ten times bigger than the number above it? That's an order of magnitude.
That's also how much money we owed the rest of the world last year.
