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"Ignore the details, consider the premise." :) Have an upvote and go read the guy's Wiki article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price https:/

by tacos 10y ago

"Ignore the details, consider the premise." :) Have an upvote and go read the guy's Wiki article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price

acqq 10y ago
The "logarihmic" premise was false from the start, that's why the people (I too) couldn't understand what you initially wrote.
- tacos 10y ago
  If you stack books horizontally on shelves by year it would form the textbook exponential curve. If you stack them vertically on the floor it makes the textbook log curve. It's a visual metaphor. Apparently not a very good one. http://science.larouchepac.com/gauss/ceres/InterimII/Arithmetic/Primes/Log_Exp_inverts.jpg http://science.larouchepac.com/gauss/ceres/InterimII/Arithme... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-47zv3839-6U/UP37FwkfOhI/AAAAAAAACUE/suc684kYcxE/s1600/logvsexpon.png http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-47zv3839-6U/UP37FwkfOhI/AAAAAAAACU... EDIT: Wow, this is still ongoing? You can mount a hockey stick horizontally or vertically on a wall, guys. Think about it.
  - acqq 10y ago
    So there are 10 magazines from 1910s, 20 from 1920s and 40 from 1930s. How would you arrange them so that I can recognize the log curve?
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    > If you stack books horizontally on shelves by year it would form the textbook exponential curve. If you stack them vertically on the floor it makes the textbook log curve. It seems to me you have that exactly backwards: If you stack books horizontally on shelves, which each shelf corresponding to a same-size range of years (e.g., a shelf per decade), with earlier periods on lower shelves, it would form a quantized approximation of the textbook logarithmic curve. If you stack books vertically on the floor in similar periods with earlier periods on the left, it would form a quantized approximation of the textbook exponential curve.

by tacos 10y ago

acqq 10y ago

The "logarihmic" premise was false from the start, that's why the people (I too) couldn't understand what you initially wrote.

tacos 10y ago
If you stack books horizontally on shelves by year it would form the textbook exponential curve. If you stack them vertically on the floor it makes the textbook log curve. It's a visual metaphor. Apparently not a very good one. http://science.larouchepac.com/gauss/ceres/InterimII/Arithmetic/Primes/Log_Exp_inverts.jpg http://science.larouchepac.com/gauss/ceres/InterimII/Arithme... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-47zv3839-6U/UP37FwkfOhI/AAAAAAAACUE/suc684kYcxE/s1600/logvsexpon.png http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-47zv3839-6U/UP37FwkfOhI/AAAAAAAACU... EDIT: Wow, this is still ongoing? You can mount a hockey stick horizontally or vertically on a wall, guys. Think about it.
- acqq 10y ago
  So there are 10 magazines from 1910s, 20 from 1920s and 40 from 1930s. How would you arrange them so that I can recognize the log curve?
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > If you stack books horizontally on shelves by year it would form the textbook exponential curve. If you stack them vertically on the floor it makes the textbook log curve. It seems to me you have that exactly backwards: If you stack books horizontally on shelves, which each shelf corresponding to a same-size range of years (e.g., a shelf per decade), with earlier periods on lower shelves, it would form a quantized approximation of the textbook logarithmic curve. If you stack books vertically on the floor in similar periods with earlier periods on the left, it would form a quantized approximation of the textbook exponential curve.