Timeline for "Thirty times weaker": Using a multiplier to describe the lack of something [duplicate]
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| May 26, 2015 at 2:56 | comment | added | Carl Younger | I would have thought that something can only be thirty times weaker than something that is quantifiably weak. It is not the same as being one thirtieth the strength. If someone needs to get one more point to win a game, and I need five more, my position is five times weaker, not one fifth as strong. | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 21:48 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of Meaning of “x is 35 times less than y" | |
| Aug 24, 2014 at 17:18 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 24, 2014 at 17:04 | answer | added | fdb | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 24, 2014 at 16:51 | comment | added | SrJoven | I agree with the peeve. If I'm listening to some positive large integer multiplication, I'm in the mindset to take a reference and increase it by the multiplier. I'm not as likely to switch gears in my head to shrink it by the multiplier. | |
| Aug 24, 2014 at 16:46 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/503584214970032129 | ||
| Aug 24, 2014 at 16:39 | answer | added | Gary's Student | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 24, 2014 at 16:22 | comment | added | phenry | I assume Hays started to say "more weak," changed it to "weaker" on the fly, then thought better of it and went back to correct the whole thing. | |
| Aug 24, 2014 at 16:19 | comment | added | Frank | I don't see a problem with 30 times weaker. 30 times *more* weaker doesn't seem right. more and weaker are not really matching up there; more weak would probably sound OK though. | |
| Aug 24, 2014 at 16:09 | history | asked | phenry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |