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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Does the data originate from an exponential? Can you prove it?

[–] mxeff@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

Your data, no because I have no access to the actually values. But just a plot of a line that seems very straight (but does not necessarily need to be), and measuring it manually will introduce some noise.

In my data, that I generated, yes there I know for a fact that it is from an exponential.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

The actual values are exactly as shown on the graph. Do you know what graphs are?

In your data what is the exponential function?

[–] mxeff@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am well aware what a graph is and that it shows the actually values, but to obtain some actually values to perform manually some calculations we need to extract some explicit values from the image. This is however not arbitrarily precise and therefore will add some noise to the extracted values.

My data is simply y = exp(x).

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the curve of the line?

Your data as in you generated it? Or that's the function that fits the curve shown in the graph?

[–] mxeff@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the case I am discussing, the data is generated using the exponential function exp(x).

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Which case is that? Have we moved goal posts or are you claiming this line:

Was generated using the function y=exp(x)?

[–] mxeff@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So your claim is that curve was generated using an exponential function?

I concede, that appears to be the case.

Now this one

What function generated this curve?

[–] mxeff@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For reference, what is math education?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its a thing you do to get into higher level classes. Then never think about again.

[–] mxeff@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am just curious. So may I ask what your math education is?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uh, no. That's too personal. Either you take what im saying at face value or you dont. If there was a time I could sit down and pass a heat and mass transfer exam that is long passed.

[–] mxeff@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
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