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Mickie_Cricket
What in "deci" is the clue to "reduced by" rather than "reduced to"? When people say "quartered" they don't mean reduced by one quarter.
Yes, I know the name was originally applied to a Roman military punishment. Most people have never heard of it, it's hardly a useful thing to know about in modern life and the word has been widely reused with a new and perfectly reasonable meaning.
Obsolete pedantry can get in the sea, along with people obsessing about punctuation "rules" that were adopted to make it easer to work with lead type that we don't use any more.