• Zink@programming.dev
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    5 小时前

    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
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      3 小时前

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

    • lime!@feddit.nu
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      4 小时前

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