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by supernewton 936 days ago
Laypeople use "exponential" to mean "superlinear". It's fine, probably.
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dragonwriter 936 days ago
Laypeople use “exponential” to mean “fast”, with what “fast" means varying by speaker and context.
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not2b 936 days ago
Brooks wrote that it was quadratic, so that seems to be an error in the summary.
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