fivefold

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I can think of many things that could be way less verbose in ruby, but I wonder where from does a a fivefold improvement come.

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having five units or components

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having five units or components

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adjective

having five units or components

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I can think of many things that could be way less verbose in ruby, but I wonder where from does a a fivefold improvement come.

Since 1930 productivity in my home country Sweden has increased fivefold, mainly due to technical achievements. Does that mean that we work 20% of the time we did then?

Reducing your game from $5 to $1 might get a lot more customers, but you'll need to increase your user base fivefold just to match your previous revenue. That's not realistic in most cases.

Increasing the incarcerated population fivefold isn't considered to have had a causal effect on the decrease in crime across the board? Come on, pull the other one.

De/eng/faq/price about how the price of neodymium "increased about fivefold between January 2011 and June 2011" due to china reducing export quotas.

Ripe last year had an incident where they reported a fivefold increase in queries to the K-root without any operational problems, for example. They successfully handled close to 70,000 queries per second at one point.

Driven by immigration and decreasing mortality the Argentine population grew fivefold and the economy 15-fold." Sure, if you consider the top upper class as the whole country.

In the past 25 years, black participation in the work force has increased 50 percent and the percentage of blacks holding managerial positions has jumped fivefold. In 1970, women comprised only 5 percent of lawyers compared to 20 percent today.

However, I think a nearly fivefold increase in the rate of incarceration probably has something to do with declining crime as well. Does anyone have any solid evidence that the jump in incarceration was not the driver of the decline in crime?

Driven by immigration and decreasing mortality the Argentine population grew fivefold and the economy 15-fold."

The linked-to article then clarifies the importance of this new work: "But the new research shows that their efficiency in a mild fog condition can be improved by at least fivefold, making them far more feasible and practical than existing versions."