What is a better word for "exponentially"?
I often hear news reports of rapidly increasing problems use the word "exponentially" for emphasis. For example, tonight's BBC America World News included a segment on the growing Syrian refugee p...
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Jul 17, 2015 · 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 …
idiom requests - Alternatives to "exponentially bigger" - English ...
May 16, 2016 · 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 …
etymology - "That which is measured, improves" - English Language ...
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 …
Single word for something that becomes progressively harder to …
Dec 30, 2016 · Although I don't know the answer, your question evokes another question - "What is a job that gets progressively easier called" ? One possible phrase that comes to my mind (although it …
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4 I will continue to look for a single word to describe "when a problem's understood complexity grows exponentially as you work on it," but I found some phrases that might fit the bill. Hofstadter's Law is …
With "amount" will you use singular or plural?
Apr 23, 2012 · See what happens with ...large amount of apples and the fact that X will exponentially grow If you said 'they will grow', you'd presumably be referring to the individual apples, but instead …
expressions - Is there a phrase that describes a problem that becomes ...
Jun 28, 2023 · I'm looking for a phrase that describes a problem whose complexity starts to increase exponentially, either because the problem is recursive, the definitions/conditions of the problem …
How do you explain cubic growth of a function
Aug 17, 2015 · When reading scientific papers I have seen people explain the growth of a variable linearly, exponentially. However how would one say for a variable which grows in quadratic fashion, …
Word or phrase for non-linear-but-still-greater-than-linear?
Mar 31, 2016 · But another problem with this answer is that 'polynomially' ('quadratically ...'haven't the extended usage that 'exponentially' (meaning just 'very and increasingly rapidly') has.