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minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoNeatly 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.
minus-squarewischi@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoDoubling every three months is an exponential interpolation and not a linear one!
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 years agoGood 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”.
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 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”.
minus-squareTelodzrum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-224 days agoThis comment should be deleted soon
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.
Doubling every three months is an exponential interpolation and not a linear one!
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”.
A terminology that I learned from the Terminator 2 movie. Only that was, I think, a “geometric rate”.
This comment should be deleted soon