Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ pollution?

Re:Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ ... by chrisseaton on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:10AM (#19328591)

Are you confusing with 'an order of magnitude'? Exponential is a rate of change, so you simply can't determine it on two data points. Order of magnitude is the relative change itself, so you can determine between two data points.

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Re:Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ ... by oarsinsync on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:22AM (#19328711)

You are literally correct, and literally could not be more wrong (and I'm deliberately using both the correct and colloquial - but depressingly also dictionary defined - definition of the word 'literally' there).

Language evolves, and not always for the best.

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Re:Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ ... by MR4D on Thursday March 07, 2019 @11:28AM (#19329352)

No, but I agree that OOM is the better word choice. That's the great thing about the English language - whatever it means today, it won't tomorrow!

Also, to address the definition of "exponentially", I refer you to the second definition here [0]:

  -- "any positive constant raised to a power."

[0] - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/exponentially

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Re:Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ ... by chrisseaton on Thursday March 07, 2019 @11:52AM (#19329604)

That's not what that definition means in this content.

Think about it - you can express any change from A to B as a positive constant raised to a power. So if that's what you think it means then you're saying any change from A to B is rising 'exponentially'.

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Re:Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ ... by jimmydddd on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:37PM (#19330087)

Well......Actually....

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