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Re:Olbers' Paradox by WinterMount223 on Monday March 28, 2022 @01:36PM (#30833193)
> too. It does act like a radiation shield, exponentially damping the distant starlight.

This is wrong, damping is not exponential but to the fourth root.

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Re:Olbers' Paradox by vikingerik on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:19PM (#30835071)
A root is a fractional exponent; I can see that as a valid description.
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Re:Olbers' Paradox by WinterMount223 on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:46PM (#30835359)
Exponentially means that it grows like exp(x).
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Re:Olbers' Paradox by adhesive_wombat on Monday March 28, 2022 @06:14PM (#30836273)
Also it's an important distinction, because an exponential will always eventually grow (or shrink, depending on sign) faster than a polynomial, no matter how high order.
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