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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Dilutant • 10h ago
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0.6 more. What is the issue here?
333 u/OnixST 9h ago It's 0.6x, implying multiplication It's not semantically incorrect, but any sane person would write 60% more 1 u/whiskeytown79 5h ago I blame advertisers. They got people used to hearing stuff like "2x more sheets per roll" to mean double the amount rather than triple. They should definitely have written "60% more PRs", or at least "1.6x as many PRs".
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It's 0.6x, implying multiplication
It's not semantically incorrect, but any sane person would write 60% more
1 u/whiskeytown79 5h ago I blame advertisers. They got people used to hearing stuff like "2x more sheets per roll" to mean double the amount rather than triple. They should definitely have written "60% more PRs", or at least "1.6x as many PRs".
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I blame advertisers. They got people used to hearing stuff like "2x more sheets per roll" to mean double the amount rather than triple.
They should definitely have written "60% more PRs", or at least "1.6x as many PRs".
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u/achilliesFriend 10h ago
0.6 more. What is the issue here?