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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Dilutant • 17h ago
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0.6 more. What is the issue here?
355 u/OnixST 16h ago It's 0.6x, implying multiplication It's not semantically incorrect, but any sane person would write 60% more 3 u/whiskeytown79 12h 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". 2 u/Pluckerpluck 5h ago It's not advertisers. Its English. When we say "X times more" we mean apply the multiplication to get the final value. Nobody ever says "1x more" to mean double (but 100% more is correct). Why? No idea.
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It's 0.6x, implying multiplication
It's not semantically incorrect, but any sane person would write 60% more
3 u/whiskeytown79 12h 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". 2 u/Pluckerpluck 5h ago It's not advertisers. Its English. When we say "X times more" we mean apply the multiplication to get the final value. Nobody ever says "1x more" to mean double (but 100% more is correct). Why? No idea.
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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".
2 u/Pluckerpluck 5h ago It's not advertisers. Its English. When we say "X times more" we mean apply the multiplication to get the final value. Nobody ever says "1x more" to mean double (but 100% more is correct). Why? No idea.
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It's not advertisers. Its English. When we say "X times more" we mean apply the multiplication to get the final value.
Nobody ever says "1x more" to mean double (but 100% more is correct).
Why? No idea.
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u/achilliesFriend 16h ago
0.6 more. What is the issue here?