[chrisweekly]

I'm not the OP you're responding to, but to be fair, in a sentence about big-O perf characteristics, which includes the word "algorithms", using "exponentially" in a colloquial non-technical sense is an absolutely terrible word choice.

[linguistbreaker]

Exponentially bad word choice even... since we're using that word however we want now?

I don't think this is meaningless or non-constructive pedantry - we're a technical community and those are technical words.