Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:51:42 05/10/02
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On May 10, 2002 at 12:31:23, Keith Evans wrote: >On May 09, 2002 at 10:46:58, Roy Eassa wrote: > >> >>Just a point of math: if x is 70% higher than y, then y is about 58.8% lower >>than x. >> >>(Earlier you said that the K7 was 70% faster than the P4. If that's true, then >>it cannot also be true that the P4 is 70% slower than the K7.) >> >>BTW, I am making NO statement in the Intel vs. AMD war, only a math comment. >> > >I would say that y is about 42% lower than x. > >x is 70% higher than y: x = (1 + 0.70)y >y is 42% lower than x: y = (1 - 0.42)x > You're right. I said "58.8% slower" when I should have said "58.8% as fast" or "41.2% slower". My math was dumb, but my original point is even stronger with your correction: If x is 70% faster than y, you *cannot* say that y is thus 70% slower than x. It's much less than that.
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