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Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> On Thursday, 16 Mar 2017 at 13:45, Detlef Steuer wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I have a +2 for "something" scheduled for yesterday.
>>> Org git from the morning.
>>
>> Thanks for confirming.  Mine was with yesterday's version of org.
>>
>> Nicolas, I think you may have been thinking of a different issue
>> entirely.
>
> Indeed. 
>
> However, isn't the current behaviour the right one? I meant, in the
> given example, it was scheduled once "yesterday", so it is really the
> second time it is scheduled today, hence the "2x". 
>
> Another way to look at it is by some sloppy analogy to algebra: you
> write "2 \times{} x" but scarcely "1 \times{} x".

I think people are thinking of it as "number of days I've failed to
complete my scheduled item".