Re: percentages (was re: repeat with i in string optimization)
Re: percentages (was re: repeat with i in string optimization)
- Subject: Re: percentages (was re: repeat with i in string optimization)
- From: "Charles Arthur, The Independent" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:08:09 +0000
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 09:53:38 -0800, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote
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That should have read:
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This is also much faster, sometimes 100 times faster.*
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* (that's 10,000 %).
No.
100% faster = 2x faster.
200% faster = 3x faster.
300% faster = 4x faster.
400% faster = 5x faster.
500% faster = 6x faster.
600% faster = 7x faster.
700% faster = 8x faster.
800% faster = 9x faster.
Which leads us therefore to conclude that 900% = 10x faster.
So 100x faster would be 9,000% faster. But this sounds like 9x to the
untrained ear.
The lesson: do not use percentages greater than 100%. They are always
confusing.
Charles
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