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[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The range is set up so that [standard value] + 10% just meets [ next standard value] -10%. They make a batch targeting 1k and test them to sort by tolerance. If they are off by more than 10% they just become 1.2k 10% or 820 10%.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It's the mathematical term for the range in a log scale. 1-10, 10-100, 100-1000, ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade_(log_scale)