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I was just reading some of the comments on Richard Heath.com from yesterday's episode.

And Jay Zimbert described the Richter and Moment magnitude scale as like the hottest scale, right?

Like you don't have a unit of hotness. Like if someone's an eight, right, they're an eight. Oh, right. We have all these unitless scales. It means they're hotter than a seven, but not as hot as a nine. It's like you don't need a unit. So it's, think of it as hotness. Okay, it's just how hot is the earthquake? Yeah, I never thought about what that number refers to.

Well, part of the Richter, say hi to Ashley, by the way, I didn't say.

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Hey, Ashley.

Part of the discussion yesterday around the Richter scale, when looked at it later, it is a unitless scale, but it makes sense also because it's a logarithmic scale,

like the units of measurement, for like, say, for instance, dimensions or distance, you have centimeters,

you have millimeters, you have meters. Those are magnitudes apart from each other, right? And so the

units themselves indicate the scale as well.

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