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"It is marketed that Teams would consume 2x less memory as a result of the transition." Not sure if that's the article or the statement from Microsoft, but what
by lkramer 5y ago
"It is marketed that Teams would consume 2x less memory as a result of the transition." Not sure if that's the article or the statement from Microsoft, but what does 2x less memory even mean? Half the memory? Quarter? If so, why not just say that?
- rocqua 5y agoI think 2x less is meant to be read as 'decreased by a factor of 2'. The less indicating that the factor is shrinkage instead of growth. Technically 2x less could be the opposite of 2x more, and technically 2x more means 3 times as much. Really what I think this shows is that it is much nicer to talk about factors than it is to talk about relative in/de-creases.
- beardyw 5y agoAs any fule kno, x is an unknown variable. 2x is twice that. QED
- boffinism 5y agoTeams uses M memory. 2xM is 2M. 2M less than M is -M. Seems pretty clear to me.
- boffinism 5y agoOh wait. Total system memory is S. Teams uses M, which can also be expressed as -(S-M) relative to S. So new teams uses -2(S-M) relative to S. E.g. if Teams used to use 95% of your system, now it uses only 90%.
- notRobot 5y agoSo it will be using negative memory?
- shubhamkrm 5y agoYeah. It'll just download more RAM for you.
- pleb_nz 5y agoIt will give you memory in return for using teams.
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- slaw 5y ago"2x less" - "two times less" is word by word translation to English from some other language. As non native English speaker I didn't notice at first that there could be something wrong with this sentence.