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Re:Snowpack 2.0 by connor4312 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @07:50PM (#23331658)

Exponential refers to c^N. N^c is quadratic. Small visualization: https://www.onlinemathlearning.com/image-files/exponential-q...

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Re:Snowpack 2.0 by Akangka on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:15PM (#23331836)

We call that polynomial, not quadratic.

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Re:Snowpack 2.0 by TomMarius on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:39AM (#23334184)

Both is right, quadratic being subset of polynomial.

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Re:Snowpack 2.0 by mrits on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:12PM (#23331819)

It doesn't help that most people in journalism use the phrase exponential growth to describe quadratic growth.

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