Ask ordinary software developers how to code an exponential function (that is, e x) and most will tell you to simply write an expression in their favorite high level language. But a significant slice ...

Suppose you saw in the news that there was a new disease, and one person was hospitalized with it. There had been no hospitalizations before today—and yet, there had been 12,800 positive tests today ...

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Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. Exponential growth looks like a jet taking ...

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With roughly 85,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the United States as of Friday morning, it’s seemingly impossible to follow the updates without hearing of the pandemic’s “exponential ...

The explosive spread of coronavirus can be turned to our advantage, two infectious disease experts argue: “But only if we intervene early. That means now.” By Siobhan Roberts In early December, Britta ...

"People forget the nature of exponential math. If you have 10x, 20x greater number within 2-3 weeks, that out swamps any benefit of 2x lower mild. That’s why we see hospitalization rates surging ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. If Christmas is (alas) a time for a materialist blowout, January is often a time for rueful reflection. Should we ...