What is a better word for exponentially? For example, tonight's BBC America World News included a segment on the growing Syrian refugee problem, saying the number of refugees was "increasing exponentially" Now clearly this usage is not consistent with mathematically accurate usage and though I'm sure most understand the intent, it still bothers me
idiom requests - Alternatives to exponentially bigger - English . . . One idiom that grinds my gears is "exponentially bigger" outside of an actual (exponential) trend, e g in pairwise comparisons like "A is exponentially bigger than B" What is a good idiom for expressing the idea that one thing is much much larger than another in a qualitative sense? Some examples
etymology - That which is measured, improves - English Language . . . Pearson's Law: "That which is measured improves That which is measured and reported improves exponentially " - Karl Pearson "When performance is measured, performance improves When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates " - Thomas S Monson
terminology - Colloquial meaning of exponential decrease - English . . . The number of fish in the lake has decreased exponentially over the past couple of years Mathematically this would mean a while ago the decrease was rapid, but rate of decrease has decreased I disagree with your premise Reason The basic structure of the sentence is: "The number of fish has decreased exponentially "
Single word for something that becomes progressively harder to succeed at While defining both "exponential" and "odds" would take a whole pile of words, I do think people are familiar enough with the concept They understand it when a sports announcer says something like "with every moment of time that elapses the odds of overcoming the score deficit become exponentially higher"
How do you explain cubic growth of a function For any such "to the power n" relationship you can say Y grows exponentially without mentioning the other factor For n=2 (or n=3), you can say Y increases as the square (or cube) of X For larger exponents, it's Y increases as the nth power of X I think, but there are plenty of "real" mathematicians here who should know better than me
Is exponentiate a valid verb tense of exponentiation? To increase exponentially; also, more generally, to exhibit specified asymptotic behaviour as some limit is approached 2 transitive To raise e or some other base (BASE n 1 20) to the power of; to subject to exponentiation Also absol Source: Oxford English Dictionary (login required) Here are a couple of usage examples supplied
Word or phrase for non-linear-but-still-greater-than-linear? @Todd Wilcox The Gricean Maxim of quantity means that 'All polynomials (eventually) grow more slowly ' entails 'All polynomials (eventually) grow ' But another problem with this answer is that 'polynomially' ('quadratically 'haven't the extended usage that 'exponentially' (meaning just 'very and increasingly rapidly') has –
Is this a complex sentence or compound-complex sentence? The example sentence has only one independent clause, Researchers are alarmed - and a couple of subordinate clauses: who study the treajectory of biodiversity loss and that and exponentially rising extinction rate might easily wipe out most of the species It's certainly a complex sentence