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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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What are you talking about it asymptoped at 5 units. It cant be described as exponential until it is exponential otherwise its better described as linear or polynomial if you must.
Exponential growth is always exponential, not just if it suddenly starts to drastically increase in the arbitrarily choosen view scale.
A simple way, to check wether data is exponential, is to visualize it in loc-scale, and if it shows there a linear behavior, it has a exponential relation.
Exponential growth means, that the values change by a constant ratio, contrary to linear growth where the data changes by a constant rate.
There's no point in arguing with OP, he's doubling down at an exponential rate (or was it linear).
That's what I said. Exponential growth is always exponential.
Iykyk
Close enough chat gpt
I have at this point absolutely no idea anymore, what you want to tell me. Would you care to rephrase your statement, on which we are disagreeing, so we can back on track and have a constructive discussion.
Exponential growth is better described by linear growth, which can actually grow faster than exponential, until it exhibits definitive behavior of exponential growth.
No, no, and no. Exponential growth is always exponential.
Tell me. What type of function is shown in this graph.
Not enough information for a meaningful answer
You don't know how to fit a curve? Why am I talking to you?
Did you learn about linear algebra through chat GPT? WTF even is "fit a curve"? Who says that? No, there's just not enough data to actually make that determination. There's barely any information on the Y axis, and the resolution of both axes is too low to make a precise reading of their values. You can only estimate.
It's exponential along its entire range, even all the way back to negative infinity.