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Re:Python 3.10.0a6 is available, now with 100% more pattern ... by collyw on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:38AM (#26326771)
Depends no? If your "100%" is based on the after value rather than the before value, you have added 100%. Though I guess there is an implicit expectation that it is the before value that is used.
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Re:Python 3.10.0a6 is available, now with 100% more pattern ... by yakubin on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @07:40AM (#26327576)
> Though I guess there is an implicit expectation that it is the before value that is used.

This is what people normally learn in primary school about the meaning of this phrase.

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Re:Python 3.10.0a6 is available, now with 100% more pattern ... by budafish on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:56AM (#26326866)
I think the word "more" implied it was 100% on top of the existing.
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Re:Python 3.10.0a6 is available, now with 100% more pattern ... by mckirk on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @06:32AM (#26327077)
Yes, that's what we have now though, isn't it?

It went from having 0 pattern matching to having 1 pattern matching -- that seems like '100% more of this thing we are talking about' to me. This of course only makes sense if you see '1 pattern matching' as a precisely defined abstract construct, but I guess the 100%-more joke usually requires that perspective (and is a joke precisely because it's so non-sensical to think this way).

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