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.
On Nov 26, 2014 Julia M Powers wrote:
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.