A mathematician walks into a bar

and says "I want ten times what everyone else is drinking."

The bartender is impressed and replies "Now that is an order of magnitude."

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7 Comments

ceenote@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Yeah? Well I want 10 times of what that guy ordered.

magamus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (5 replies)

It’s exponential!

lugal@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 2y (4 replies)

No, it's linear

BleatingZombie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Do we know with only two data points?

lugal@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 2y

We have a factor. 10x is a linear function

marcos@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It's constant. Or is it? I don't have the extended reals rules memorized, but it looks constant to me.

lugal@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 2y

It's a constant factor and therefore a linear function