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Re:Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load by lutusp on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @02:40AM (#8201322)
> ... logarithmically proportional to the size of the vesel. A ship that is twice as big will only require and engine that is half as big.

Surely not "half as big". ITYM the engine size for a 2x vessel size increase is 1.5x. Maybe "half again as big" would convey it.

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