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confused exponentially with parabolic #162

Closed ghost closed 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

page 17 reads: "Can you map the probability exponentially-i.e. making the likelihood that a value is picked equal to the value squared?" should read:"... parabolic-i.e. making..."

Because exponential means something like f(x)=a^x (with "a" being some arbitrarily value)

shiffman commented 5 years ago

I always mess this up, thank you!

shiffman commented 5 years ago

I have changed this to:

Can you map the probability to a quadratic function