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On our Multipliers page, we have this section:
I've been told off-site that the author is aware of this, and has called it out. Still, it's something we should put front and center if we're going to use it as an example.
You cannot meaningfully exponentiate values that have units, because the way that alters the number depends on the unit of choice. If you try to square 1 kilogram, that would seemingly leave you with 1 kilogram, but if you instead measure it in grams, you'd get 100,000 grams, or 100 kg, while if you measured it in metric tons, you'd get 0.00001 metric tons, or 0.01 kg.
So, we cannot actually say that attacks would become "moon level to brown dwarf level", there are infinitely many answers for how this multiplier would change the attacks' strength, ranging from planck scale to 3-A.
I think that we should either add this reasoning to it, or remove this example if that would overcomplicate things.
Just from this description alone, the bigger issue is that the multiplier provided is incoherent and fundamentally unusable.Multipliers without reliable statements
- Black Flash Multiplier (Jujutsu Kaisen): Rejected due to not being consistent with the scale of the verse as several attacks would be Moon level to Brown Dwarf level. Several characters have been able to withstand a Black Flash even if, in theory, the attack is ^2.5 stronger.
I've been told off-site that the author is aware of this, and has called it out. Still, it's something we should put front and center if we're going to use it as an example.
You cannot meaningfully exponentiate values that have units, because the way that alters the number depends on the unit of choice. If you try to square 1 kilogram, that would seemingly leave you with 1 kilogram, but if you instead measure it in grams, you'd get 100,000 grams, or 100 kg, while if you measured it in metric tons, you'd get 0.00001 metric tons, or 0.01 kg.
So, we cannot actually say that attacks would become "moon level to brown dwarf level", there are infinitely many answers for how this multiplier would change the attacks' strength, ranging from planck scale to 3-A.
I think that we should either add this reasoning to it, or remove this example if that would overcomplicate things.