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by AdamH12113 5y ago
A more concise explanation can be found in the Usenet Physics FAQ:
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- WinterMount223 5y ago> too. It does act like a radiation shield, exponentially damping the distant starlight. This is wrong, damping is not exponential but to the fourth root.
- vikingerik 5y agoA root is a fractional exponent; I can see that as a valid description.
- WinterMount223 5y agoExponentially means that it grows like exp(x).
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoAlso it's an important distinction, because an exponential will always eventually grow (or shrink, depending on sign) faster than a polynomial, no matter how high order.