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Philosophical question:
Say you have two objects, A and B.
Say that A is 1 foot tall and B is 3 feet tall.
Is it the same thing to say:
1) B is three times the height of A
and
2) B is three times taller than A?
To me, the first phrase implies that B is 3 feet tall, while the second phrase implies that B is 4 feet tall.
Would the current sentence be considered an inaccurate translation of the Japanese "彼の家は私の家の３倍の大きさだ。" (literally, "his house is three times the size of my house")?
Maybe I'm making a distinction that doesn't actually exist in practice.