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Hopping on my soap box here.. I'd think that the word "exponentially" is used incorrectly in the title. The trend to use cool math terms in everyday language is
by geertj 13y ago
Hopping on my soap box here.. I'd think that the word "exponentially" is used incorrectly in the title. The trend to use cool math terms in everyday language is a something that has been going on over the last few years. It can be very expressive, but it's annoying when it's done in the wrong way.
Something cannot be "exponentially more" than something else. Something can be a factor more than something else (if you have a measure). In this case, if you want to use a cool math term, then you could say something is an order of magnitude more than something else.
The correct way to use the adverb exponentially would be to apply it to a development or a progression. For example, "Moore's law predicts that we'll have exponentially more CPU power in the future", or "This problem gets exponentially harder if the input size increases linearly". It applies to something that changes with an ever increasing rate, not to any specific values in time.