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"battery gains have been mostly linear for the last 25 years" After a whole paragraph about how Li-ion improves by ~5% per year. Reporters don't understand what
by bjwbell 11y ago
"battery gains have been mostly linear for the last 25 years" After a whole paragraph about how Li-ion improves by ~5% per year. Reporters don't understand what exponential means!
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- JadeNB 11y ago> After a whole paragraph about how Li-ion improves by ~5% per year. Reporters don't understand what exponential means! Just think, 20 years ago, there was no battery life at all! :-)
- 7zlg6ttmwdys 11y agoGrowth of 5% per year is geometric, not exponential.
- thisisdave 11y agoI don't think the commenter you're responding to was accounting for the possibility that the growth occurred in discrete jumps once per year.
- TheCoelacanth 11y agoWhat's the difference? Wikipedia says that geometric growth is a special case of exponential growth, so anything that exhibits geometric growth would, by definition, exhibit exponential growth.