techgump wrote:It's not that I dont understand what you are trying to say Norman Bates, but you are still incorrect... Larger, in this case, in inferring a function of size. No other way around it. If it is not, and you make the statement if can be "either one", than you mean larger is either a function of size and/or this mysterious something else. What is that? I find it odd that you state it better to say "2x the size", when 2x the size is making it larger... as of course, larger is a function of size, so 2x larger is a correct statement meaning exactly the same as 2x the size.
To me, larger merely describes the mathematical equation used. IE: I want a map 2x smaller, is also in reference to size, but cutting it in 1/2 (not 1/3 with your math/relationship), with math of "Y x 1/2". Again, with this statement, I use smaller as a function of size to describe the size in which I want it increased or decreased. Hence, larger or smaller, are functions (or better descriptors) to describe size, and size is the variable. The size variable/multiplier is determined as over 1, or under 1 (Y/1, or 1/Y), based on the usage of the descriptor (smaller, larger, bigger, tinier, more, less, greater than, less than, etc).
Essentially what you are saying though is, if I want something 4x smaller, it would really be 1/5 the size, or 5x larger, would be 6x the size. To clarify though, the "4x larger" statement means we need to analyse what larger means. To me it means a description (function/descriptor) to size, which is the same as 4x larger in size, or 4x in size. Again larger is merely describing (or inferring) the 4x variable as a > or < the current state of the object at hand. If it does not mean this to you, what then does it mean? If it does not infer size, what does it infer. This is where the confusion begins for me.
I guess, for some reason when smaller or larger is used, you feel this means that the multiplier gets a +1 added to it. IE: 2x larger = (Y x (2+1)); 2x smaller = (Y x 1/(2+1)).
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