• Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Neatly showing why when all you have is two data points you can’t just assume the best fit function for extrapolation is a linear one.

    Mind you, a surprisingly large number of political comments is anchored in exactly that logic.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Good point and well spotted!

        PS: Though it’s not actually called exponential (as it isn’t enr-3-month-periods but rather 2nr-3-month-periods ) but has a different name which I can’t recall anymore.

        PPS: Found it - it’s a “geometric progression”.

        • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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          2 years ago

          PPS: Found it - it’s a “geometric progression”.

          A terminology that I learned from the Terminator 2 movie. Only that was, I think, a “geometric rate”.