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jfengel a day ago

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....

NotYourLawyer a day ago | parent [-]

Yes, dictionaries are wrong sometimes.

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jfengel a day ago | parent | prev [-]

By their own goals, they're only "wrong" if people don't actually talk that way. That is their only measure of truth.

But yeah, the people who feel ownership of a word often get cranky about semantic drift.

NotYourLawyer a day ago | parent [-]

I’m somewhere in between a prescriptivist and a descriptivist. But this definition of exponential is just wrong.