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KFC911 03-24-2020 03:51 AM
When did "exponential" become an adjective?
 
This board is full of Maf geeks and shoe watchers....does it bug you to hear it used this way?

Screw the dictuonary :D

masraum 03-24-2020 05:18 AM
exponential growth

Seems like a pretty normal usage to me.

KFC911 03-24-2020 05:24 AM
Normal is not math geeky tho' ;)

KFC911 03-24-2020 05:29 AM
....and another one

dithering ;)

Sooner or later 03-24-2020 05:31 AM
KC

Stop that dithering. Get your hand out of your pants or you might notice exponential growth.

KFC911 03-24-2020 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Sooner or later (Post 10796347)
KC

Stop that dithering. Get your hand out of your pants or you might notice exponential growth.
LOL....I dithered a lot in my youth...statistically speaking...never had any exponential growth tho'!

David 03-24-2020 07:50 AM
Looks exponential to me

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1585061441.jpg

widebody911 03-24-2020 07:59 AM
-ial

adjectival word-forming element, variant of -al (1) with connective -i-. From Latin -ialis, in which the -i- originally was from the stem of the word being attached but later came to be felt as connective.

KFC911 03-24-2020 08:25 AM
Dang Latins...we should've bombed their country for messing up exponents ;)

aschen 03-24-2020 08:36 AM
my mother always used it growing up, actually she used the word logarithmic. I had to get to college before I figured out that I think she meant exponential

I.E. "they are putting up houses in that new neighborhood at a logarithmic rate". Close enough for mom math I guess.

sugarwood 03-24-2020 04:33 PM
Maybe he doesn't know what adjective means?


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