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In English, "50% faster" is unambiguously "1.5x as fast". No one would ever interpret it as meaning that B is faster.
by Zarel 11y ago
In English, "50% faster" is unambiguously "1.5x as fast". No one would ever interpret it as meaning that B is faster.
- SquareWheel 11y agoThis confused the heck out of me as a kid. Saying something is 50% faster means the same as being 150% faster. Or 100% faster could also be 200%, depending on subtle language choices. Very unintuitive.
- idbehold 11y agoI still don't see how it could be confusing. "faster than" != "as fast as" A is 50% faster than B == A is 150% as fast as B
- coldtea 11y agoAgain, I wasn't talking about what's it in "proper english" -- but how it's used in benchmarks. Kevin Decker, who did the site in TFA, is a native english speaker, and yet he writes "1.5x faster" to mean baseline1.5 (and not baseline + 1.5baseline). So clearly it's not so "unambiguous" whether you can use faster in this way or not. And in fact, I've never seen any of those benchmarks where "Nx" doesn't mean the final value is N*baseline.