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colechristensen on June 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Lik...

You're just wrong.

Here are three sources that say an order of magnitude means ten times as much:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/order-of-magnitude

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/order+of+magnitude

vacri on June 22, 2016 [–]

Each of those links say that it can be used both ways. I was wrong that it wasn't used the OP's way, but not wrong in my own definition of it.

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