The scale is referred to as a magnitude or order change of a number. For example, take the number 1 and apply an order of magnitude of 10 to this and you get 10 as the number. The scale would be defined as a 1:10 scale.
The formula to calculate a scaled unit is:
\[ a = b \times sf \]
Where:
To calculate the new number from scale, multiply the original number by the scale factor. The scale factor is a ratio or magnitude of increase that you wish to apply to an original number.
For example, if the original number is 1000 and the scale factor is 10, the scaled unit is calculated as:
\[ a = 1000 \times 10 = 10000 \]
So, the scaled unit is 10000.
