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It’s apparently a cubic polynomial fit to the logged data — see http://bactra.org/weblog/1176.html http://bactra.org/weblog/1176.html
by rsfern 6y ago
It’s apparently a cubic polynomial fit to the logged data — see http://bactra.org/weblog/1176.html http://bactra.org/weblog/1176.html
- cousin_it 6y agoA cubic polynomial goes to +infinity on one side and -infinity on the other. So taking exp, log, etc won't make it go to 0 on both sides. I can think of two possible explanations: 1) the leading coefficient happens to be 0, so it's actually quadratic fit 2) the leading coefficient is nonzero, so somewhere to the left or right the graph starts rising again, but it's not visible due to cropping. Anyway by now we've spent more time thinking about this than any of the participants, so we should call it a day.