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by esafak 736 days ago
They are overloading "fewer" to mean division as well as subtraction. According to this logic "twice fewer" means "half as much".
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Fewer is subtraction, times fewer is division.

More is addition, times more is multiplication (or 1 plus multiplication, oops).

I don't think anyone says "twice fewer". Or "twice more" when talking about quantities.