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They take effort to read even when you know what they are; on top of that it's easy to not notice that they're logarithmic, and I'd bet a lot of people don't ev
by _bxg1 6y ago
They take effort to read even when you know what they are; on top of that it's easy to not notice that they're logarithmic, and I'd bet a lot of people don't even know what "logarithmic" means.
- jiggawatts 6y agoIn my experience, all of the following words cannot be used in general discourse: Quadratic, linear, logarithmic, exponential, orthogonal, asymptotic, etc... The second you use any of those words, people's eyes glaze over and there's an audible mumble sigh of "Ugh! Maths!" It's sad, but it's the way it is.
- everybodyknows 6y agoI observe that "exponentially", along with "minimal", and "inflection point" are frequently used in the popular press -- wrongly, or at least without understanding of the first, quantitative sense of the term.
- brokenmachine 6y agoNot once have I heard "inflection point" in popular press.