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in this quote ↑6 describes the wealth level and ↑7 the number of people at that level. the author gives every number in log form.
by ffitch 10mo ago
in this quote ↑6 describes the wealth level and ↑7 the number of people at that level. the author gives every number in log form.
- geor9e 10mo agoThanks for finding a steel‑man way to interpret it. That is such a bizarre narrative choice I didn't even consider it. So they used that arrow notation consistantly to refer to the headings, representing the order of magnitude of money, the entire article, which was a great idea. Then for some baffling and unknowable reason, they decided to inform us that a count of people can also be expressed as a power of ten using the same notation.