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Magnitudes are usually determined from measurements of the number of publications of the invention of a treasure as recorded in the different media. Magnitude scales vary on which media are considered and how they are measured. Different magnitude scales are necessary because of differences in figures in time, since the appearance of language, of writing, of printing, now of the internet. And especially since a decade, with AI online tools and large databases measuring the output of an individual’s scientific research or the impact of a single article with the so-called H-Index, Eigenfactor, Impact Factor (IF), Journal Citation Reports, and Citation Analysis.
Volume of information, articles, books, tweets, and qualitative observations (using terms ranging from “secrete” and “discrete” to “colossal” and “universal”) are used to determine the propagation value. The scale is open-ended with the largest treasures in human history given magnitude 9. A value of 0 is given for secret discoveries, defined as less than 100 persons informed, without any referenced publication; 1 with at least one publication, but less than a 1000 supposed readers or followers, and 9 representing a colossal propagation which can reach more than a quarter of the Earth human general population.
With indices running from 0 to 8, the SMS associated with a supposed discovery is dependent on the propagation of the information in different languages, to what geographical area, and how long the wave lasts. The scale is logarithmic from SMS-2 and up; an increase of 1 index indicates an eruption of curiosity that is 10 times as powerful.
As such there is a discontinuity in the definition of the SMS between indices 1 and 2. The lower border of the volume of wonder jumps by a factor of ten between all higher indices. In the following table in progress, the frequency of each SMS indicates the approximate frequency of new supposed discoveries of that SMS and higher.
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