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dudek@ai.toronto.edu (Gregory Dudek) writes: >Is it just me, or does terminology like >"55% faster" seem ambiguous or at least just plain funny? >We all know what it means, but it just sounds bad. > BASESPEED/NEWSPEED = 0.55 => NEWSPEED = 1.18 * BASESPEED >dudek@ai.toronto.edu (Gregory Dudek) >Dept. of Computer Science (vision group) University of Toronto Hey, does your department do a lot of this ? You really ought to have a disclaimer if you say things like this without support from your university ,-) Seriously speeking, my mac and my HP calculator seem to agree on on: NEWSPEED / BASESPEED == .55 => BASESPEED ~= 1.82 * NEWSPEED Maybe I should get a IIci instead of the SE/30. It might give better results. ,-) (If you didn't get it...) Really, the only thing I can think of, that "55 % faster" might mean, is that the computer does 155 % more per time unit. All else, really, isn't very logical. Follow-ups to alt.religion.computers. h+@nada.kth.se == h+@proxxi.se -- You are being watched.