(50g) Earthquake Magnitudes: How Much Stronger?

[Valentin Albillo]

 
Hi, Joe:

Sorry for the quakes, we had a respectable one last week or so in Costa Rica, no damage.

(07-06-2019 01:21 PM)Joe Horn Wrote:  Example: Yesterday's quake was M7.1 and the quake the day before that was M6.4. How much worse was yesterday's quake?

7.1 ENTER 6.4 QUAKE -->
STRONGER: 11.2
BIGGER: 5
[...]

'QUAKE'
<< I->R - ABS ALOG LASTARG 2. / ALOG OVER * 1. RND
"STRONGER" ->TAG SWAP 1. RND "BIGGER" ->TAG >>

BYTES: 76.5 #EECDh

HP-71B:

        INPUT A,B @ T=ABS(A-B) @ "Bigger:";10^T;", Stronger:";10^(1.5*T)

Trivial but shorter and way less cryptic, as usual. If you want results rounded to just 1 decimal place, place a FIX 1 anywhere before the output.

Have a nice weekend.

V.