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I know this isn't strictly OT, but I see it a lot and it bugs me. The article mentions "more than triple the cover space" while the title mentions a 300% increa
by jihadjihad 4y ago
I know this isn't strictly OT, but I see it a lot and it bugs me. The article mentions "more than triple the cover space" while the title mentions a 300% increase. A 300% increase is a four-fold increase relative to the starting value, not 3x. This is because a 100% increase is a doubling, of course, so it's easy to get mixed up. If something went up by 1100% it's a twelve-fold increase, etc.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoI don’t think percent is ever more clear than “times”. Wish we’d just use that. But I think people like the big numbers.
- tim333 4y agoBoobs up by 30,000 basis points.