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		cma on March 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vortex radio waves could boost wireless capacity “... Polynomially. Not exponentially. The surface area of a sphere doesn't grow exponentially with radius.

jjtheblunt on March 2, 2012 [–]

I'm so glad to see you wrote that, seriously. It is absurd how it has become pop-cultural to use "exponentially".

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