haxxiy on 18 April 2023
Zippy6 said:
Yeah I get that, 5 times sales = 400% increase. But I would view "up by five times" to actually mean it's six times sales. It's not one times, it's up five times, so six times. Just as 1 up by 5 would mean 6, and it would need to be up to 5 to mean 5. The wording is a bit weird to me. But I'll take it they actually mean 400% for now. |
Would you view "up by one time" to actually mean a doubling then? By deductive reasoning you should, but that yields zero results on search engines.
One times five is five, not six, after all. Up 'to' makes sense only if there's a confidence interval.
