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gcanyon on Jan 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kagi: A Premium Search Engine

Maybe they’re using “exponential” metaphorically to mean “a lot”. But if they’re using “exponential” literally, then maybe the exponent is 1.03.

skinkestek on Jan 8, 2022 [–]

Look at the graphs.

To me it looks literally exponential until half a year ago.

skinkestek on Jan 9, 2022 | [–]

or look here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29852783

Seems I'm not alone in thinking it has been almost exponential for a good while and until recently.

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