The context was in Ontario there are 251 china flu cases today and someone was freaking out ask saying I don't know about exponential growth. So I mathed it out, 251 cases vs a population of over 14 million Ontario = 0.00179%. Neckbeard was getting xir's panties in a knot because oh noes, it's going to be 1% very soon. I mathed it out, it would take over a year and a half to get there, not in a few weeks.
The funny though about me not knowing exponential growth is, I went to business school with a finance major. The e=mc2 of finance is the compound interest function aka exponential growth so I literally had this pounded into my head for 4 years straight. I can plot an exponential graph off the top of my head and taking a dollar to double, it takes 21 steps, I have the numbers memorized.
But the schooling doesn't matter. Over the last number of years, I exponentially grew my stock portfolio from $0 to 7-figures. So yeah, I know what exponential growth is. It made me a millionaire.
Reddit really is pearls to swine.
The context was in Ontario there are 251 cases today and someone was freaking out ask saying I don't know about exponential growth. So I mathed it out, 251 cases vs a population of over 14 million Ontario = 0.00179%. Neckbeard was getting xir's panties in a knot because oh noes, it's going to be 1% very soon. I mathed it out, it would take over a year and a half to get there, not in a few weeks.
The funny though about me not knowing exponential growth is, I went to business school with a finance major. The e=mc2 of finance is the compound interest function aka exponential growth so I literally had this pounded into my head for 4 years straight. I can plot an exponential graph off the top of my head and taking a dollar to double, it takes 21 steps, I have the numbers memorized.
But the schooling doesn't matter. Over the last number of years, I exponentially grew my stock portfolio from $0 to 7-figures. So yeah, I know what exponential growth is. It made me a millionaire.
Reddit really is pearls to swine.