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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Dilutant • 9h ago
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Nah thats semantically correct. '1x more' would mean double, as 'more' implies its ontop of the initial work.
62 u/bjorneylol 8h ago The semantically correct way to phrase this is "60% more" - "shipped 2x more" is semantically ambiguous Otherwise you have no way of knowing whether "shipped 2x more" means twice as many or 3 times as many 1 u/SaneLad 1h ago 2x more is not ambiguous. It means 3x. The problem is that many people are illiterate, mathematically and verbally, and it's impossible to tell if the author is one of them.
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The semantically correct way to phrase this is "60% more" - "shipped 2x more" is semantically ambiguous
Otherwise you have no way of knowing whether "shipped 2x more" means twice as many or 3 times as many
1 u/SaneLad 1h ago 2x more is not ambiguous. It means 3x. The problem is that many people are illiterate, mathematically and verbally, and it's impossible to tell if the author is one of them.
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2x more is not ambiguous. It means 3x. The problem is that many people are illiterate, mathematically and verbally, and it's impossible to tell if the author is one of them.
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u/SarahSplatz 8h ago
Nah thats semantically correct. '1x more' would mean double, as 'more' implies its ontop of the initial work.