When people say there’s been an “𝑥 fold increase in such and such.” They mean such and such is 𝑥 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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      It took me way too long to realise you weren’t asserting an unorthodox answer to the nondeterministic polynomial time problem.

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        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.

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      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.