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This is pretty incredible, and congrats to the research team! But, could you please not use phrasing like "Reduces Power 10,000x". I don't think I'm the only t

• thaumasiotes 11y ago
  http://www.xkcd.com/169/ http://www.xkcd.com/169/ Get over yourself. In particular, your page of drivel goes wrong here: > "smaller than", "less than" etc. indicate subtraction, as in: 2 less than 10 is 8. Believe it or not, "smaller than" and "less than" are also used to refer to being smaller or lesser (go figure) in size or amount, as in "2 is less than 10".
  • Angostura 11y ago
    That's pretty rude. The poster was only asking for something that would improve clarity.
    • thaumasiotes 11y ago
      > The poster was only asking for something that would improve clarity. This is not true. There is no issue of clarity if I say "the effect of losing a leg on quality-adjusted life years is four times smaller than the effect of smoking", or at least, no ambiguity about how the two numbers I'm thinking of relate to each other (numbers wholly invented). The poster was asking us to conform to his personal peeves.
• wongarsu 11y ago
  That's a pretty simple special case of English language: if a reduction is indicated by a multiplicator greater one, the result is the same as multiplying by the multiplicative inverse of the number. So 10 reduced by factor 10,000 is clearly 10 * 1/10000 = 0.001.