een orde grootte bedrag
English translation: order-of-magnitude amount; rough figure
| 02:38 Aug 25, 2001 |
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|  Selected response from: Ken Cox Local time: 14:04 | ||||||
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| na +1 | magnitude of money; magnitude of monies |
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| na +1 | substantial amount (quantity) |
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| na +1 | order-of-magnitude amount; rough figure |
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| na | correction to previous |
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| na | A lot is called for at the very start (outset) |
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7 mins peer agreement (net): +1
magnitude of money; magnitude of monies Explanation: Implicit in answer. My geriatric brain. |
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25 mins peer agreement (net): +1
substantial amount (quantity) Explanation: I see no necessary relation to money. Bedrag, can simply be "quantity" or "amount" of something else than money. HTH |
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5 hrs peer agreement (net): +1
order-of-magnitude amount; rough figure Explanation: this is pretty poor Dutch (and a literal translation would be poor English as well). 'Order of magnitude' is a term commonly used in science/engineering and quite literaly means a figure with a factor of 10 of the actual/exact figure ( one power of ten is one order of magnitude), and it is used in such context in a comparative mannner. The usage has crept into the business context, where it means a rough estimate or a rough (inexact but representative or plausible) figure. 'Order of magnitude figure' is a perfectly acceptable English term here. from ref 1 : ... the ionization parameter (10 -4 < U < 10 -3 ), or an order of magnitude variation in the abundance pattern. from ref 2: ... summarizes the strategies for getting a good order-of-magnitude estimate. Reference: http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/oom_alreadydoing/ Reference: http://www.lightandmatter.com/htmlbook/bk1ch01.html |
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5 hrs
correction to previous Explanation: sorry, that should read '...within a factor of 10 of the actual figure...', more precisely, it means that the actual figure is located somewhere in a range that does not vary by more than a factor of 10. |
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2 days 0 min
A lot is called for at the very start (outset) Explanation: Don't forget that usefull acronym - KISS Keep It Simple Stupid. |
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