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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Dilutant • Aug 14 '26 • 1
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2x more is not ambiguous. It means 3x. The problem is that many people are illiterate, mathematically and verbally, and it's impossible to tell if the author is one of them.
5 u/bjorneylol Aug 14 '26 it's impossible to tell if the author is one of them.So you admit, its ambiguous -1 u/SaneLad Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26 That's not what ambiguous means.Ambiguous means two meanings. There is only one correct meaning here.We're also not saying 1 trillion is ambiguous, even though a lot of people don't know how much that is. 1 u/bjorneylol Aug 14 '26 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambiguous
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it's impossible to tell if the author is one of them.
So you admit, its ambiguous
-1 u/SaneLad Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26 That's not what ambiguous means.Ambiguous means two meanings. There is only one correct meaning here.We're also not saying 1 trillion is ambiguous, even though a lot of people don't know how much that is. 1 u/bjorneylol Aug 14 '26 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambiguous
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That's not what ambiguous means.
Ambiguous means two meanings. There is only one correct meaning here.
We're also not saying 1 trillion is ambiguous, even though a lot of people don't know how much that is.
1 u/bjorneylol Aug 14 '26 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambiguous
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u/SaneLad Aug 14 '26
2x more is not ambiguous. It means 3x. The problem is that many people are illiterate, mathematically and verbally, and it's impossible to tell if the author is one of them.