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I think it still wrong, although one may understand what the other person means.

When we say "faster" or "slower" what we usually mean is that we add/remove the percentage to the original amount, which is often cause of misunderstanding.

"Y is 10% faster than X" means that Y goes at 110% the speed of X

"Y is 10% slower than X" means that Y goes at 90% the speed of X

In particular, "Y is N% slower than X" doesn't mean that "X is %N faster than Y" ! (110% of 90% is not 100%)

For example "Y is 100% slower than X" doesn't mean that "X is double as fast as Y", but that Y is not moving at all.

and "Y is 200% slower than X" means... that Y goes in the other direction ? (Maybe back in time, in this case ?)



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