Facebook: August 18, 2012 at 03:17PM

Nerd grouching for the day: if you’re comparing two fixed quantities X and Y, X cannot be “exponentially larger” than Y. Even if X is overwhelmingly larger than Y is. “Exponentially” refers to the rate of growth of a function over a range of fixed values, and does not apply to a pairwise comparison of two fixed values. It doesn’t just mean “lots bigger.”

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