Yeah but 3 is less than an order of magnitude, and we have already established that within an order of magnitude is acceptable. :-)

That's 3 _decimal_ orders of magnitude.

HN user: my income went up an order of magnitude last year (read: 20%)

Same HN user: That’s wrong, the distance is an order of magnitude greater than that (read: 1050 times)

Hmm for me an order of magnitude when talking is 10^3, but checking online it seems like it might be a french thing

Long scale clearly.

for every difference there is one magnitude such that the difference is one order of the same

/s