Hi Jos,

if my statement is false, I tend to agree with Dragan, which does not imply that I disagree with you. My assertion (is that the correct english word) was based on slower always meaning less (speed) and faster meaning more (speed). I realize that slower also can mean more time consuming, and with that definition 10 times slower is acceptable.

When I went to high school, we had a seminar in terms and terminology where we learnt to use well defined words whenever possible, and it was always important to define the meaning of words which could be misunderstood. The best example was 'gå' which is best translated into 'walk' or 'go', and the concrete example was the sign 'Don't walk on the grass'. Someone can argue that if you lie down or stand on the grass, you don't walk on the grass. So we were told that the legal norwegian definition, called term, for 'gå' was, in bad english, 'walk, run, stand, sit, lie down, drive or in any other way be in immidiate nearness of'. Even more verbs were mentioned, but I don't remember them all.

So please pardon me for being a little bit picky. :-)

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>>Hi Dragan,
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>>the important thing is this general mathematical rule: if x>0 and y>1 then x*y>x. (Where is Einstein when you need him?) <bg>
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>>Please read my last message to Tamar, Message#976144
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>The mistake you are making here Tore, imesho, is that you are trying to correlate, translate, an expression, a way of speaking, to mathematics and physics. They are not the same and when someone says "it's ten times slower" they are not expressing a mathematical rule but an idea, a concept. Otherwise when someones says "my pc runs like a dog" do we need to point out to them that their computer can niether "run" nor be a "dog" :)