minus-squarehamFoilHat@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thoughtlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 day agoOkay, so it does mean “1/10th of”. If words still had meaning then “ten times less” would mean “we thought we had 10 but we actually have -90”. linkfedilink
minus-squarehamFoilHat@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thoughtlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoHonest question, does “10 times less” mean 1/10th? It makes no sense to me mathematically. linkfedilink
Okay, so it does mean “1/10th of”. If words still had meaning then “ten times less” would mean “we thought we had 10 but we actually have -90”.