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What is algol?
(ALGOrithmic Language) A high-level compiler language that was developed as an international language for the expression of algorithms between people and between people and machines. ALGOL-60 (1960)...
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What is 'magnitude'?
The term 'magnitude' has a few senses: 1: a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the...
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What is the magnitude?
Spacial size or quantity. It's just another word for how big something is, usually reserved for earthquakes and (the brightness of) stars.
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Compare apparent magnitude and absolute magnitude?
Apparent Magnitude is the star's brightness as it appears from earth, while, Absolute Magnitude is the apparent brightness of a star if viewed from a distance of 32.6 light years away.
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Which is brighter a star with a magnitude of 0 a star with a magnitude of 1.5 or a star?
Of those choices, zero is the brightest, 6 is the dimmest.