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How to represent order of magnitude?
Actually, in our classes, we are taught to represent it as A*10x where A varies from 0 to 5. But in BYJU's Learning App, it is A*10x where A is from 1 to 10. Please help me and tell me which one is the correct one, according to the latest syllabus.

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Order of magnitude is the quantity of powers of 10. If two numbers differ by one order of magnitude,first nember is about ten (10^1) times different in quantity than second number.
If two values differ by two orders of magnitude, they differ by a factor of about 100 (10^2) and so on.
so order of magnitude is represented as A*10x where A varies from 1 to 10.

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