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What does "100x cheaper" mean? Costs are 1 / 100? If so, is there a more appropriate term to use?

cheaper in terms of token costs

Sure, but when people say something is 5x cheaper or 500% cheaper, what is the math that they are implying? That the expensive thing is 5x / 500% as expensive as the cheap thing?

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