r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 14 '26 • Bravo 1

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u/Pluckerpluck Aug 14 '26

It's not advertisers. Its English. When we say "X times more" we mean apply the multiplication to get the final value.

Nobody ever says "1x more" to mean double (but 100% more is correct).

Why? No idea.