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Nitpick: Your number of orders of magnitude is off by a (binary) order of magnitude.

The speed of light is about 300,000,000 m/s. (In fact it's exactly 299,792,458 m/s, because that's how the metre is defined.) So 3,000 m/s is off by five (decimal) orders of magnitude, not two.



Ha! Here I am complaining about Chat-GPT's obviously wrong answer and I get something so obviously wrong. Yes, thank you for pointing that out.


Counter nitpick: You can reduce any discrepancy to two orders of magnitude by changing your base :-)




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