haxxiy said:
'1.3x' or '1.3 times' are correct terminologies, not sure what you all are doing. '0.3 times faster' would mean it's 70% slower. Come on, multiplying isn't that hard folks... |
You might be right, or maybe not, but I once again realized how much I hate English (mainly due to its incoherency). 'Two times faster' is obviously twice as fast, but '50% faster' is 1.5 times as fast, no? And 50% corresponds to 0.5, so you can probably see where I'm getting confused. I think 1.3 times faster is actually correct here, but I'm going to refrain from using that because there's much less room for confusion when saying '1.5 times as fast' (or, in this case, '1.3 times as fast'). I'm glad this got cleared up though! (As an added bonus, there's a related but different kind of confusion in my native language, which doesn't really help in my case.)
