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Keep fighting the good fight, Eliezer. To add on: Some words have valuable and specific meanings! We don't have a good substitute word for "exponential" that m
by emmett 12y ago
Keep fighting the good fight, Eliezer.
To add on: Some words have valuable and specific meanings! We don't have a good substitute word for "exponential" that means the same thing. Please make an effort not to do this!
- irollboozers 12y agoSorry, but in this case, it's actually N^x. Even running PCR and gel analysis requires steps where the time is dependent on the number of samples (e.g. pipetting, walking to the centrifuge, making multiple gels)
- emmett 12y agoGenerally speaking, running double the number of samples requires approximately double the amount of work, maybe a little less since you're doing it in bulk. Are you really saying that going from 10 samples to 11 samples causes a doubling (or 1.2x-ing or tripling or whatever) of the time/work required? That's what exponential means.