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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte (yes it's a hyphen !))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,alt.religion.computers
Subject: Re: Terminology: ZZ % faster
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Date: 20 Oct 89 16:47:04 GMT
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Reply-To: h+@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
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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.

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