iacephysics said:This is pretty urgent, I am really confused by this kind of wording.
Normally when people say A is a factor of 3 above B, do they mean A = B*3, or A = B*4?
LowlyPion said:Without seeing your particular context, I would normally take that to be approximately 3 times more than what it is compared to. As in 25 is about a factor of 3 times greater than 8.
iacephysics said:Well in this context, there can be no approximate answer. So my question is really whether A is 3 times as large B or 4 times as large as B. This is more of an English question than math question.
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