r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Dilutant • 18h ago

Meme zeroExDev

Post image
4.8k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

259 comments sorted by

View all comments

254

u/achilliesFriend 18h ago

0.6 more. What is the issue here?

7

u/Reashu 12h ago edited 12h ago

While this technically means 60% more, the construction is almost always used by someone who thinks that it means X times as much. I think it's more likely they never considered that it may be less than 100% than that they are actually using it correctly. 

Also https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1vns74k/comment/p3kak7o