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Originally Posted by Greg700
yeah, I have a couple:
People who misuse the word exponentially:
It doesn't have to be e. It can be 10^(0.00000001*t).
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/math
That's true it doesn't but any exponential(or number for that matter) can be represented in terms of e. Your example is e^(0.00000001*t*ln(10)). However, the initial point is somewhat incorrect, an exponential can be slow, take for example an exponential divided by a factorial. So it's technically not true that it has to be a big increase, i.e. it is possible that the the change in temperature of the polar ice caps can be approximated by an exponential. For small values of x, and a correctly chosen constant k, (e^x)/k! and the change around those values can be quite small. In fact (e^x)/(x!) is bounded and approaches 0 as x goes to infinity.
/end math