Comment by efilife

2 years ago

> Reading is about an order of magnitude faster than writing

not a native speaker, what does it mean?

Order of magnitude usually refers to a 10x difference. Two orders of magnitude would be 100x difference.

(Sometimes the phrase is casually used to just mean "a lot", but here I think they mean 10x).

An order of magnitude is for example from 10 to 100, or from 1,000 to 10,000, so typically an increase by 10x or similar.