cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/1198065

We can and should be allowed to drive faster on our freeways and motorways; but don’t think governments will let it happen overnight.

  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    And cubic just means an exponent of 3, which is one kind of exponential relation.

    • Zagorath
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      1 year ago

      No, exponential is Nx, polynomial growth takes the form xN, and in the case of a cubic, N is 3. Exponential functions tend to grow much, much faster than polynomial ones.