PSA

[rolanni]

I will looking for ways to insert the phrase "logarithmically greater" into every chapter of Fledgling.

Thank you.

Comments

Huh?

[bookmobiler.livejournal.com]

I'm rather mathematically challenged. Would that be the same as great = log greater?

quip

[stick-breaker.livejournal.com]

Try diminishing returns.

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

Making sawdust to a reggae beat?

[ambug666.livejournal.com]

And the challenge shall be logarithmically greater for each successive chapter. Good luck!

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Logarithmically cool!

RFLMAO or whatever that logarithmic acronym is :-)

[zola.livejournal.com]

The chance of Theo being late was logarithmically greater than any possibility of her being early.

Jen Sar Kiladi's manners were of an order logarithmically greater than any stuffy professor's.

The likelihood of Kamele taking a new onagrata seemed logarithmically greater now that they were living in the Wall and Theo didn't like it one bit.

It was a logarithmically greater possiblity that Roni and her mother were up to no good.

"The records seem to have disappeared!" Professor Emeritus Beltaire said in dismay. "Still, it's a logarithmically greater chance that they were merely misfiled than that someone got through the House of Planetary Treasures security and stole them!

How's that for starters?

[drammar.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you. That was getting a bit ridiculous.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that's got me thinking -- do (some) people say "logarithmically greater" when they mean "exponentially greater"? The first has a rate of increase which decreases as the input increases (so the curve flattens out), which I suspect is not what most people mean. The second has a curve which increases in steepness.

log > --> exp >

[(Anonymous)]

I believe the phrase should be "exponentiolly greater" which means ever increaseing by a multiplying factor, "logarithmically greater" would imply ever increasing by a gradually diminishing ammount.

Jim Yos'Gallow

[(Anonymous)]

Does not compute!

Exponentially greater means that if a is exponentially greater than b, a=x^(n+1) and b=x^n, right?

So logarithmically greater means...?

I am unable to follow my analogy.

[(Anonymous)]

Never mind, I'm crazy. I should have just looked at a graph in the first place. Or taken the derivative.

Exponentially greater means increasing increasingly quickly, whereas logarithmically greater means increasing increasingly slowly. So I guess what logarithmically greater means in a scale sense changes based on how far along you are on the graph, and what your base was that you started with.

I think logarithmically greater is like the greatest common denominator. I fail to see its utility.