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I am very likely one of only a few people but it really irritates me when the term "fold" is used when they really mean "times". Folding a piece of paper (just

I am very likely one of only a few people but it really irritates me when the term "fold" is used when they really mean "times". Folding a piece of paper (just like binary numbering) 6 times will provide you with a stack of 64 sheets. They did not have a performance increase of 64 times. This is identical to the idea of stating "magnitude" as being the number of times based on 10. How wrong am I?

nunuvit 3y ago
Haha I like that idea, but it's your own personal definition. "-fold" is multiplicative and it's used to flexibly change the part of speech since at least Old English [1]. You can think of folds as referring to the individual layers of something folded, rather than the action of folding. It can be either depending on context. I can make 64 folds (layers) by making 6 folds (actions). [1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/-fold https://www.etymonline.com/word/-fold