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The established value for the speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 m/s. What is the order-of-magnitude of this number?
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The established value for the speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 m/s. What is the order-of-magnitude of this number?
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The order of magnitude is 10⁸ .
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