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- What is a better word for exponentially?
I often hear news reports of rapidly increasing problems use the word "exponentially" for emphasis For example, tonight's BBC America World News included a segment on the growing Syrian refugee p
- idiom requests - Alternatives to exponentially bigger - English . . .
One idiom that grinds my gears is "exponentially bigger" outside of an actual (exponential) trend, e g in pairwise comparisons like "A is exponentially bigger than B" What is a good idiom for
- etymology - That which is measured, improves - English Language . . .
That which is measured and reported improves exponentially " - Karl Pearson "When performance is measured, performance improves When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates " - Thomas S Monson A few sources say it was used often at Sun Microsystems but do not attribute it to anyone
- terminology - Colloquial meaning of exponential decrease - English . . .
Is it true that decreased exponentially often means negative exponential increase when used outside of mathematics? And if so what are good ways of clearly specifying which kind of decrease you are talking about
- How do you explain cubic growth of a function
When reading scientific papers I have seen people explain the growth of a variable linearly, exponentially However how would one say for a variable which grows in quadratic fashion, or cubic? I d
- Is exponentiate a valid verb tense of exponentiation?
To increase exponentially; also, more generally, to exhibit specified asymptotic behaviour as some limit is approached 2 transitive To raise e or some other base (BASE n 1 20) to the power of; to subject to exponentiation Also absol Source: Oxford English Dictionary (login required) Here are a couple of usage examples supplied
- Single word for something that becomes progressively harder to succeed at
One possible phrase that comes to my mind (although it stinks of mathematics), is "exponentially difficult easy" Meaning of exponential (as given in vocabulary com) is "Use exponentially when you want to say that something's increasing quickly by large amounts
- Word or phrase for non-linear-but-still-greater-than-linear?
But another problem with this answer is that 'polynomially' ('quadratically 'haven't the extended usage that 'exponentially' (meaning just 'very and increasingly rapidly') has
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