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"three fold" should mean 8x not 3x (feddit.uk)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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When people say there's been an "๐‘ฅ fold increase in such and such." They mean such and such is ๐‘ฅ times as big.

If you get something that actually folds like a sheet of paper, the amount of layers doubles each time. One fold = twice as many layers. Two folds = four times as many layers...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is actually pretty interesting. I wish I could pin someone else's comment. Thanks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

NP! =D

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It took me way too long to realise you weren't asserting an unorthodox answer to the nondeterministic polynomial time problem.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

haha sorry!

My wrist is pretty messed up, and sometimes, it basically seizes up, so I went back to 15 yrs ago txt message dialect...

And then after posting it I realized, oh that could be confused with... ah fuck it time to ice my wrist and do more massage.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I read that as "NP != D" and spent far too long trying to figure out what the variables N, P, and D were in this context.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Your comment makes me think of P versus NP.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

When I saw NP that's where my mind went first... Hence my confusion lol