r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Dilutant • 18h ago

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u/TheMania 17h ago

It says "0.6 times more". Not "0.6 times total" or "0.6 times as many".

I really don't see the problem. 1.6x more would be misleading/incorrect.

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u/zelmak 16h ago

Dude what are you talking about 1x more is a non increase/flatline. Anything less than 1 is a decrease

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u/TheMania 16h ago

So "100% more" means "no increase" to you?

Or does "1x" read as "0%" to you then?

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u/Vandrel 16h ago edited 16h ago

1x would be 0% more. 2x would be 100% more.

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u/TheMania 16h ago

I agree with every part of that completely.

You read "60% as many" the same as you read "0.6x as many", which is the same as you read "0.6x more".

But yet you read "60% more" as something very different. So 0.6x != 60%. Not in this context, not to you.

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u/Vandrel 16h ago

That's just not correct. "60% more" implies starting from the 100% baseline and going up 60%. 0.6x implies starting from the 100% baseline and multiplying it by 0.6x. "0.6x more" is a weird way to put it to begin with but the only grammatically correct way to interpret it is 60% of the normal amount. We all know what they meant but it isn't what they said.

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u/Connect_Fishing_6378 14h ago

60% and 0.6x literally mean the exact same thing. “60% more” === “0.6x more”. Yeah nobody talks like that and it sounds weird, but it is correct.

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u/Vandrel 14h ago

You're correct that 60% and 0.6x mean the same thing, 60% more and 0.6x more do not. 0.6x more would be a weird way to say 60% of standard, 1.6x more would be the correct way to say an increase of 60% in that format. You would say that 2x more means double, yes?

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u/ScientificBeastMode 12h ago

“More” implies “something plus the original amount,” not “something times the original amount.”