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whatshisface
on April 30, 2020
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Intel's flagship 10th-gen desktop CPU has 10 cores...
The word you're looking for is "quadratically."
stcredzero
on April 30, 2020
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Thanks for that! Now I can use parallel -ly suffixes to express that thought, too!
xxs
on May 1, 2020
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True that, but what bothers me is that people may take it 'as 4x times increase' (quad=4, similar to twice, thrice, and so on). This is pretty much what I used to use.
whatshisface
on May 3, 2020
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That's called "quadrupling."
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