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		sneak on April 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ilo sitelen, a handmade computer for Toki Pona My cursory research on the topic suggests that while the ratio itself is a fraction, the "size" of the ratio refers to the inverse: the magnitude of difference between numerator and denominator, with 1:1 being the lowest ratio. This seems to be more of a linguistic thing than a math thing, which makes this thread on-topic again. :D

aidenn0 on April 6, 2020 [–]

If we are going to talk linguistics, then saying "the cost/benefit ratio improves" is probably more clear than saying it gets larger or smaller then.

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