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Re:Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining? by DasCorCor on Saturday January 28, 2023 @05:06PM (#34562486)
The business cycle is not a sinusoid. It’s a fractal. It’s chaotic and oddly correlated. Also, sinusoids are exponentials. ;)
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Re:Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining? by pineaux on Saturday January 28, 2023 @05:26PM (#34562650)
Oh! could you elaborate on this? To me even the name "business cycle" hints towards a cyclical/periodical movement. Sinusoids are not exponentials, sinusoids are periodical. They seem exponential for a short while though. The growthfactor also declines at some point. Could you elaborate on why you think its fractal?
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Re:Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining? by aoki on Saturday January 28, 2023 @06:29PM (#34563108)
It's a joke, sinusoids are sums of exponentials when you're talking about complex functions [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_formula#Relationship...

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