[jensenbox]

I am very likely one of only a few people but it really irritates me when the term "fold" is used when they really mean "times".

Folding a piece of paper (just like binary numbering) 6 times will provide you with a stack of 64 sheets.

They did not have a performance increase of 64 times.

This is identical to the idea of stating "magnitude" as being the number of times based on 10.

How wrong am I?

[nunuvit]

Haha I like that idea, but it's your own personal definition. "-fold" is multiplicative and it's used to flexibly change the part of speech since at least Old English [1]. You can think of folds as referring to the individual layers of something folded, rather than the action of folding. It can be either depending on context. I can make 64 folds (layers) by making 6 folds (actions).

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/-fold