Like a comment on another thread, 0.25x would be the much better way to say this. It's 25% of the original value. It's also consistent: If 3x means 300% the original value, then 0.25x is 25% of the original value.
If you say 4x lower, that changes the semantics for lower than x vs higher than x, which is absurd.
That reads fine to me as a native-ish English speaker. What would read less awkward for you?
Like a comment on another thread, 0.25x would be the much better way to say this. It's 25% of the original value. It's also consistent: If 3x means 300% the original value, then 0.25x is 25% of the original value.
If you say 4x lower, that changes the semantics for lower than x vs higher than x, which is absurd.
> If you say 4x lower, that changes the semantics for lower than x vs higher than x, which is absurd.
where does it say in the rulebook that human languages have to have perfectly symmetric pairs of words?
Whatever happens, surely we can unite against the Crazed Barbarians who use percentages. :)
So like, -3x?
More like 0.25x.