Timeline for Appropriate use of "reaching" when the subject gets smaller and not bigger
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 10, 2015 at 21:24 | history | rollback | Joe |
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| Jun 10, 2015 at 21:21 | history | edited | Joe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2015 at 20:52 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | With that example, 'sometimes, a size just 20% of the original is achieved'. | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 20:49 | vote | accept | bigb055 | ||
| Jun 10, 2015 at 20:48 | comment | added | Joe | Sure (shrinks is similar certainly). But for image compression software, shrinking is certainly it's goal... | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 20:47 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Agreed. Wikipedia has 'The laws of thermodynamics dictate that absolute zero cannot be reached using only thermodynamic means', but there is a real achievement involved here. I think 'gets down to' usually sounds less incongruous. | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 20:34 | history | answered | Joe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |