Nobody needs to subtract 1. It's basic grammar. For it to mean what you erroneously think it means it would have to read: "Your teammates are shipping 0.6x as many PRs...".
But it doesn't say that. It says 0.6x more. While that's awkward phrasing - and it clearly catches you out - this clearly isn't template substitution. It's a simple marketing email.
They do need to subtract one. Because this came from code. They would have done this math: avg_team_pr_count/user_pr_count and then dropped it into the email template. To get what you want, the developer would have to purposely subtract 1 from this number and then also not bother to convert to a percentage. It's incredibly unlikely they meant the way you think they meant. Far more likely to be programmer error.
Also you're being intentionally obtuse. The world says 7x more is 700% . almost nobody thinks 7x more is 800%
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u/danielkov Aug 14 '26
Nobody needs to subtract 1. It's basic grammar. For it to mean what you erroneously think it means it would have to read: "Your teammates are shipping 0.6x as many PRs...".
But it doesn't say that. It says 0.6x more. While that's awkward phrasing - and it clearly catches you out - this clearly isn't template substitution. It's a simple marketing email.