3 ms·
50000 * 3s, with s in seconds is very much linear.
by isaacfrond 1y ago
50000 * 3s, with s in seconds is very much linear.
- Frummy 1y agoYes, that accruing is linear. I mean there are exponential examples in the religious system, such as more karma required for different things, the lifespans of deities in various realms and the length of the kalpas/ timespans of the ages. And compared to saying it aloud by yourself it's orders of magnitude more. And when they cram the text into like neat folds with dense text, thats a few more. I just googled, yeah I still google because perplexity on comet is not my thing, 100 trillion prayers on a microfilm is an example I saw.
- queuebert 1y agoMaybe "exponential" means "big" to non-math people. Years ago in a writing class I took, English majors kept using "hyperbolic" to mean "exaggerated". That was hard to parse for this physicist.
- some_furry 1y agoThey arrive there from two different base words (which share an origin): Hyperbole vs hyperbola. https://uselessetymology.com/2017/11/12/the-etymology-of-hyperbole/ https://uselessetymology.com/2017/11/12/the-etymology-of-hyp... https://www.etymonline.com/word/hyperbola https://www.etymonline.com/word/hyperbola
- IAmBroom 1y agoThank you!