I always find it weird when they say stuff like something is 5 times lighter than something else. Or it’s 10 times cheaper than something else. It seems better to say scientists have invented a new material that weighs 1/5 as much as steel.
Yeah. You can’t x by a positive number and end up with a product that’s smaller than x. It’s literally incorrect, even though they obviously mean it’s one fifth rather than “five times”
I always find it weird when they say stuff like something is 5 times lighter than something else. Or it’s 10 times cheaper than something else. It seems better to say scientists have invented a new material that weighs 1/5 as much as steel.
Yeah. You can’t x by a positive number and end up with a product that’s smaller than x. It’s literally incorrect, even though they obviously mean it’s one fifth rather than “five times”