
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...
With "amount" will you use singular or plural?
Apr 23, 2012 · See what happens with ...large amount of apples and the fact that X will exponentially grow If you said 'they will grow', you'd presumably be referring to the individual apples, but instead …
Is exponentiate a valid verb tense of exponentiation?
Jul 26, 2021 · 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 …
How do you explain cubic growth of a function
Aug 17, 2015 · 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, …
idiom requests - Alternatives to "exponentially bigger" - English ...
May 16, 2016 · 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 …
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Jul 17, 2015 · Firstly, at What is a better word for exponentially? there is an answer showing that the word is often used in a sense less precise than the mathematical one (but echoing it). Then, by …
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Nov 13, 2019 · An exponential growth function is one that grows exponentially. It should be globally understood when you say something is growing exponentially or something has exponential growth.
expressions - Is there a phrase that describes a problem that becomes ...
Jun 28, 2023 · I'm looking for a phrase that describes a problem whose complexity starts to increase exponentially, either because the problem is recursive, the definitions/conditions of the problem …
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 …
Is this a complex sentence or compound-complex sentence?
Mar 1, 2016 · 0 Is this a complex sentence or compound-complex sentence? Researchers who study the trajectory of biodiversity loss are alarmed that, within the century, an exponentially rising …