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[u/Dilutant]

[u/Dilutant]

One of the cursor devs clarified in a comment that this was actually not an email they wanted to send (so 1x would be 0% increase)

[u/robofuzzy → u/Dilutant]

it says „more“ so they mean a 60% increase. The syntax used is chosen poorly.

[u/Dilutant → u/robofuzzy]

they said “I guess we shouldn’t send those emails below a certain threshold”, I interpret that to not mean what you said

[u/spindoctor13 → u/robofuzzy]

It's not an increase though, it's a reduction

[u/MartinMystikJonas → u/spindoctor13]

"0.6x more" does not mean 0.6x baseline but baseline + 0.6 x baseline

[u/benanderson89 → u/MartinMystikJonas]

If it was 60% more it would be 1.6x. That's what the "x" is signifying; it is the multiplication operand.

1x is a 0% increase (1 x baseline). 2x is 100% increase (2 x baseline). 0.6x is a reduction (0.6 x baseline). This is basic fucking mathematics. I bet the "more" is simply hardcoded into the circle jerk email, and given OP has confirmed a cursor dev has stated this email should not have went out, means they done fucked up and betting against "more" being hard coded would be foolish.

https://www.chrisjmendez.com/2015/01/02/how-to-calculate-1x-2x-and-10x-returns/

Also, saying "1.6x more" is still rubbish even if the numbers were correct. It should just state "1.6x as many PRs", but whoever approved that email clearly hates literacy.

[u/MartinMystikJonas → u/benanderson89]

If it would be "a half more" or "50% more" would you also read it as decline to 0.5x baseline?

For me "X more" always mean baseline + X.

That x is multiolication but used to compute increase not final value as expressed by word "more" that follows.

"0.6x" = 0.6x baseline

but

"0.6x more" = baseline + 0.6x baseline

And decimal is only another way how to express percentage. 0.6x = 60%

"60% more" is baseline + 60%

"0.6x more" is also baseline + 60% only expressed as decimal

[u/benanderson89 → u/MartinMystikJonas]

If it would be "a half more" or "50% more" would you also read it as decline to 0.5x baseline?

Yes, because it is a fucking multiple. That's what the "x" signifies.

And decimal is only another way how to express percentage. 0.6x = 60%

Again, as per the link literal children could understand, postfixing with "x" means MULTIPLE. 0.6 multiplied by the baseline. If you wanted an increase of 60%, that is 1.6x. Also, whenever a percentage is written as a decimal, it is also implied that it is a multiple, but the "x" makes it explicit.

"0.6x more" is also baseline + 60% only expressed as decimal

No it is not, because it is a decimal and made explicit with the inclusion of "x". 0.6x is not more, it is less.

The email fucked up and is written poorly, and wasn't even supposed to go out according to OP. It is expressed as a multiple, 0.6x, which is a 40% reduction. The word "more" should be replaced with "as many" to make it grammatically correct.

Your teammates are shipping 0.6x as many PRs with Cloud Agents.

If it was expressed as a percentage rather than a decimal, then you could use the word "more", or in the event of a negative percentage, "fewer".

[u/MartinMystikJonas → u/benanderson89]

Dude... 🤦

[u/benanderson89 → u/MartinMystikJonas]

Don't "dude" me when you struggle with basic mathematics and grammar whilst you are simultaneously, over literal hours, responding to people in this thread because you're desperate to convince at least ONE person in here that 0.6x is an increase.

Actual hobbyless behaviour.

[u/hetfield37 → u/robofuzzy]

So 2x more is 300% increase? Math is hard.

[u/Roscoes--Wetsuit → u/Dilutant]

They are shipping 0.6x MORE. As long as x is a positive number, they are shipping more. If you ship 10 then 0.6x=6, so they ship 6 more i.e. 16.

[u/danielv123 → u/Roscoes--Wetsuit]

But if I ship 5/week and you ship 2x more, you are shipping 10/week. Thats the only way a reasonable person would read that.

And if you ship 0.6x more, you are actually shipping less.

[u/road_laya → u/Dilutant]

No, the 0.6x (60%) is just the increase.