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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by mirimir on Sunday March 15, 2020 @01:05AM (#22581436)
Dropping stuff and falling are good examples. If you're paying attention, anyway. I can still grab stuff that's fallen maybe 10-20 cm, but by 50-100 cm it's moving way too fast.
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by StephanTLavavej on Sunday March 15, 2020 @01:44AM (#22581589)
And that's only quadratic growth, not exponential.
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by MiroF on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:21AM (#22581723)
That's a terrible example, why would pick an explicitly sub-exponential relationship?
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by bonzini on Sunday March 15, 2020 @03:04AM (#22581884)
Because exponential is even worse.
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by mirimir on Sunday March 15, 2020 @12:53PM (#22584523)
Right. Because it's not linear.

The only truly exponential example that comes to mind is milk souring. But that's too slow, unless you keep notes.

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