> How do you drop something by 33x? Because people can't handle fractions, they say something was made "33x smaller" instead of "1/33 as large". It makes no s

> How do you drop something by 33x? Because people can't handle fractions, they say something was made "33x smaller" instead of "1/33 as large". It makes no sense by the individual meaning of the words, it is just a common (and for many people annoying) idiom.