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Originally Posted by Christ
Doesn't exponential just mean that X is happening at the rate of some exponent?
That would mean that ANYTHING could be qualified as exponential, because exponents don't need to be integers, nor do they need to be logical numbers.
I.E. an exponent can be a fraction, percent, etc.
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The math version is anything w/ the form e^x, and in some disciplines it can be a(b^x), but either way if we're looking at a non-trivial function then in order for it to be exponential the increase from n-1 to n has to be greater than the increase from n-2 to n-1. If we're looking at a linear function then all the increases will be the same.