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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 
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03-24-2020, 03:51 AM
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exponential growth
Seems like a pretty normal usage to me.
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03-24-2020, 05:18 AM
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Normal is not math geeky tho'
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03-24-2020, 05:24 AM
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....and another one
dithering
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03-24-2020, 05:29 AM
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Stop that dithering. Get your hand out of your pants or you might notice exponential growth. |
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03-24-2020, 05:31 AM
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03-24-2020, 07:04 AM
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Looks exponential to me
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-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.
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03-24-2020, 07:59 AM
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Dang Latins...we should've bombed their country for messing up exponents
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03-24-2020, 08:25 AM
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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.
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03-24-2020, 08:36 AM
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Maybe he doesn't know what adjective means?
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