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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (65020)	7/13/1999 12:26:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579959

Fred, <I have to believe this is a language difference problem. Try to think literally. Two times smaller means you reduce the original number by two times the original number. Four times smaller means you reduce the original number by four times the original number. This is English.> Now I understand. This is English. Thank you. You can only "reduce" (meaning "subtract") but not relate values. You simply do not have enough words to differentiate. No wonder your Professor could not find an inverted equivalent to his own example: "Also "x is k times the size of y" means x/y = k." So, how about the opposite, if I want to emphasize on how small is a subject relative to a much bigger object? Y is a tiny fraction of X? No other way? How could I say correctly, for example, that the Moon is 81.3 times lighter than Earth? It is also truly amazing how you guys reduce everything to shopping discounts and percentage gains, especially in dollar amounts. Unbelievable. In the Moon example, should I also think in terms of red tag discount or what?