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SwellJoe
on June 1, 2008
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Google's BigTable Costs 10 Times Less than Amazon'...
But the title did not say "1/10 times less", it said "10 times less".
izaidi
on June 2, 2008
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That's what the "less" implies, though, isn't it? "n times less" always means 1/n times as much (i.e., smaller by a factor of n).
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