Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/12/14/18:04:40
A. Sinan Unur wrote:
>
> Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > you're in deep doodoo), or a certain editor-cum-operating-system I
> > shall not name, which has a learning curve like e^x and a manual the
> > size of a phone book and half as well organized ;-)
>
> that is supported by neither theorey nor fact. it is not supported by
> fact, because people do learn it. a learning curve such as e^x means
> there will never be any learning. theoretically, for the concept of
> 'learning curve' to have any meaning, the function should probably be
> strictly increasing and concave.
e^x fits that description. e^x is everywhere increasing and has upwards
concavity.
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