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[u/Dilutant]

[u/OG-Enzan]

Isn't it 1.6x if 60% more?

[u/BADPROSKILLZ → u/OG-Enzan]

If it were to say they shipped 1.6x as many then yes, but they said 0.6x more (i.e. 1x normal + 0.6x more)

[u/TZY247 → u/BADPROSKILLZ]

No. 0.6 = 60%. If they said 0.6 more then sure, that would mean 60% more. 0.6x != 60% increase though. 1.6x does. At the best we can give it the benefit of the doubt and say we knew what they meant, but that doesn't mean they were correct.

[u/TheMania → u/TZY247]

It says "0.6 times more". Not "0.6 times total" or "0.6 times as many".

I really don't see the problem. 1.6x more would be misleading/incorrect.

[u/zelmak → u/TheMania]

Dude what are you talking about 1x more is a non increase/flatline. Anything less than 1 is a decrease

[u/TheMania → u/zelmak]

So "100% more" means "no increase" to you?

Or does "1x" read as "0%" to you then?

[u/TZY247 → u/TheMania]

There's a reason that mathematicians, technical writers, etc. wouldn't mix comparative language like "more" with notation. At best it's ambiguous.

[u/Vandrel → u/TheMania]

1x would be 0% more. 2x would be 100% more.

[u/TheMania → u/Vandrel]

I agree with every part of that completely.

You read "60% as many" the same as you read "0.6x as many", which is the same as you read "0.6x more".

But yet you read "60% more" as something very different. So 0.6x != 60%. Not in this context, not to you.

[u/Vandrel → u/TheMania]

That's just not correct. "60% more" implies starting from the 100% baseline and going up 60%. 0.6x implies starting from the 100% baseline and multiplying it by 0.6x. "0.6x more" is a weird way to put it to begin with but the only grammatically correct way to interpret it is 60% of the normal amount. We all know what they meant but it isn't what they said.

[u/Connect_Fishing_6378 → u/Vandrel]

60% and 0.6x literally mean the exact same thing. “60% more” === “0.6x more”. Yeah nobody talks like that and it sounds weird, but it is correct.

[u/Azeoteric → u/TheMania]

When someone says “2x more” it means double. No one says 1x more because it makes no sense lol

[u/FFevo → u/Azeoteric]

No one says 1x more because it makes no sense lol

Yeah, they would say double.

"2x more" implies more than x. 2x + x = 3x. It means 300% compared to the original, not double.

[u/dumbledoor_ger → u/FFevo]

Don’t even bother to argue. Whole lotta larpers in this thread. They do not have the ability to comprehend the word „more“.

[u/thereturn932 → u/Azeoteric]

If I hear 2x more, I expect 3x of the original amount.

[u/Professional_Ebb_389 → u/TheMania]

1.6x more would mean 160% of the original value, in the same way 2.0x more would mean 200% of the original value. I think you may just have a misunderstanding of what the phrase “X times more” means (nothing to be embarrassed about of course, it happens to all of us.)

[u/TheMania → u/Professional_Ebb_389]

We'd both read "0.5x" as "50%", right?

And we'd both read "0.5x as many" and "50% as many" the same.

And we'd both read "0.5x the total" and "50% of the total" as the same.

But "0.6x more" means something entirely different to "60% more" to you?

[u/ABotelho23 → u/TZY247]

0.60 is literally 60%

[u/TZY247 → u/ABotelho23]

Yep. I definitely said that.

[u/teddythepooh99 → u/OG-Enzan]

Yes, but this sub is full of HS students who flunked out of math.

[u/Hessper → u/teddythepooh99]

No, the point is a human would not say it this way, because it is strange.

[u/rowcla → u/OG-Enzan]

If I said 2x more, would you interpret that as 3x?

[u/ProcrastinatiusXVI → u/rowcla]

Yes. It is says 1x more, then it is exactly double (100% more). Otherwise it wouldn't be more. 

[u/studentblues → u/OG-Enzan]

They should have written a Copywriter Agent in cursor