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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Yeah? Well I want 10 times of what that guy ordered.
It’s exponential!
No, it's linear
Do we know with only two data points?
We have a factor. 10x is a linear function
It's constant. Or is it? I don't have the extended reals rules memorized, but it looks constant to me.
It's a constant factor and therefore a linear function