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  • 06-11-2015
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The moon is about 240,000 miles from earth. what is the order of magnitude of this number

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alber
alber alber
  • 06-11-2015
The order of magnitude is calculated by use of log function. log(240000) = 5.38 so the order is 5 (from what I've see we round down even if it was 5.999 but this may be wrong in some cases).
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