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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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