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I'm not getting the impression commenters are trying to limit others. Rather, there is a strange obsession with math most individuals will never need and doesn'

I'm not getting the impression commenters are trying to limit others. Rather, there is a strange obsession with math most individuals will never need and doesn't satisfy them, in a world where one can learn so much else. Even the exponential growth through calculus example is obsessively nitpicky: just draw a few graphs of y=x, y=2x, y=x*x and y=2^X. Most people will grasp the idea, and it's 30 minutes at most.

drekk 4y ago
> most people will grasp the idea, and it's 30 minutes at most I think we experienced very different pandemics. I could pick 100 people off the street and I guarantee you 9/10s of them aren't able to do a logarithmic change of base. If you can't do that can you say you grasp exponential growth?