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and their talk pages, and occurs in a few related articles. My understanding is that the use of "decade" is, other than the mental image of an interval of values, the same as "order of magnitude" and that virtually all scientific use of such terminology is as a relation between pairs of quantities,
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These two ways of speaking are not quite compatible. As an attribute of pairs, the interval from 67.3 to 673 is a single decade. "Decade" as claimed in the scientific notation section would say that values from 67.3 to 100 are assigned to the decade (10,100) and those between 100 and 673 belong to
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The article's sources use "decade" as a log10 measure of the size of the (ratio) interval between a pair of values, with the twist that it is also refers to that interval as a set. Other than the logarithm, this is the same as the use of "decades" as a calendrical term to denote both specific
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It's true that any normalization scheme for scientific notation amounts to a choice of one decade (as an interval) of positive numbers allowed as mantissae. If people want that stated in this article I have no reason to object, it's a simple math fact that can just be asserted if there is no
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The current top paragraph of article describes decade as a general mathematical construct, log of ratio. The earlier (3 July 2020) version stated that it is applied to frequencies:
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To put the question more succinctly: is "decade" used (outside this
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In acoustics, the decade is used to mean a factor of 10 in frequency. That can be from 10 Hz to 100 Hz. It can also be from 8.9 Hz to 89 Hz. I've seen both.
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