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Consider “cheapness” to be the reciprocal of price; thus, something that costs $30 has a cheapness score of 1/30 antidollars. For this item to become 3x cheape
by School-Cotton 4y ago
Consider “cheapness” to be the reciprocal of price; thus, something that costs $30 has a cheapness score of 1/30 antidollars.
For this item to become 3x cheaper would mean for its cheapness score to be multiplied by 3, thus 1/10 antidollars. Thus “3x cheaper” means the same thing as “price multipled by one third”.
- copperx 4y agoI like this hypothesis; however, if that was indeed the original meaning, it would have more sense to advertise it as a 33% discount, or as slashing the price by 1/3. "3x cheaper" seems to be aimed to the average Joe shopping for shoes, not to a developer who knows arithmetic.
- School-Cotton 4y agoIt's not the same thing as a 33% discount, nor slashing the price by 1/3. It's slashing the price by 2/3. A 33% discount would be "1.5x cheaper" by my analysis.