
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Do animals have "gender"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
The use of both words has exponentially increased over time. The word sex continues to be predominant, but the use of the word gender has immensely grown, recently nearing almost 80% of …
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Sep 8, 2020 · For example, on the bbc website today: "Prof John Edmunds said cases were now "increasing exponentially". Some 2,948 UK cases were recorded on Monday, according to …