"The original is 9x larger" This is another pet peeve that I have with the way we phrase these things: It should be 9x "as large" and 8x "larger." The way I'd

"The original is 9x larger" This is another pet peeve that I have with the way we phrase these things: It should be 9x "as large" and 8x "larger." The way I'd usually phrase this, to avoid ambiguity, is "this new model is 11% the size (of the original)." Or, the other way, "the old model is 9x the size".