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That was a fun game to play. I can see it taking off, “Additive or Multiplicative?” Great Jeopardy topic too.
My take is that additive is really in terms of how much greater or fewer, while multiplicative is more about the relationship of a quantity that one has on another and watching it change in proportion over time. Additive does not need to change in proportion.