| ▲ | Jabbles a day ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> the potential damages caused by a storm increase exponentially—by a power of eight—with increases in wind speed As any CS undergraduate will be able to point out, this is not exponential, it's polynomial. Exponential means that damage ∝ a^speed A good CS undergraduate will be able to point out that this doesn't matter, as the constants involved may well be more important. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jfengel a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technically correct (the best kind of correct). But dictionaries have started to recognize a definition meaning "rapid rate of increase". https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/exponential#:~:text=(mathem.... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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