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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by jjtheblunt on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:55PM (#36360876)
I suspect the phrase is a cliche often used to sound scientific and sometimes by folks unaware, like how description of growth as “exponential” is a cliche used by non-mathematical discussion.
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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by CleaveIt2Beaver on Friday June 16, 2023 @02:53PM (#36361891)
I agree with this. As a layman, I've always understood "orders of magnitude larger" to just mean "way too big" and "exponential" growth to imply "out of control".
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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by vba616 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @12:16AM (#36367224)
x^2 and 2^x manifestly both involve exponents, so I think it's valid - outside math class - to call anything involving accelerating growth "exponential".
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