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One of the most common fallacies you hear voiced by software people is that polynomial/exponential is bigger than linear, because they ignore the constant facto
by srtjstjsj 9y ago
One of the most common fallacies you hear voiced by software people is that polynomial/exponential is bigger than linear, because they ignore the constant factors that matter in the concrete cases in the real world. The same fallacy leads to bad engineering choices and bad business choices.
- mehrdada 9y agoThere is definitely a lot of truth to this, but when talking about exponential growth in particular, the growth is often so huge that it eclipses any conceivable linear function in practice pretty quickly. Also, given sufficiently large numbers, better asymptotic growth always beats. So this is less wrong when talking about huge businesses.