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supernewton
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The Bluffers Guide to the Mythical Man Month
Laypeople use "exponential" to mean "superlinear". It's fine, probably.
dragonwriter
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Laypeople use “exponential” to mean “fast”, with what “fast" means varying by speaker and context.
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Brooks wrote that it was quadratic, so that seems to be an error in the summary.
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