Timothy Li is a consultant, accountant, and finance manager with an MBA from USC and over 15 years of corporate finance experience. Timothy has helped provide CEOs and CFOs with deep-dive analytics, ...
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 21, No. 3 (1972), pp. 333-335 (3 pages) In a paper on the estimation of the exponential growth function by direct least ...
What’s the greatest shortcoming of the human race? I’m sure we all have some suggestions, but according to physicist Albert Bartlett, it is “our inability to understand the exponential function.” ...
In its initial stages, the coronavirus pandemic grew at an exponential rate. What does this mean? The number of infected people in a country is growing exponentially if it increases by a fixed ...
A variable undergoing logistic growth initially grows exponentially. After some time, the rate of growth decreases and the function levels off, forming a sigmoid, or s-shaped curve. For example, an ...
Exponential growth is understood by everybody, who has not been living under a stone for the last year... Talking to people that are genuinely concerned about the survival of mankind, I frequently ...
Matthew Yglesias waxes rhapsodic about being on the "back half of the chessboard" in terms of the exponential growth of computer technologies. The point of this, in terms of technological progress, is ...