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===Logarithmetic behavior as metaphor===
===Logarithmetic behavior as metaphor===


For many years Ed Barbeau has edited a wonderful column n the '' College Mathematic Journal'' called Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam i.  In
For many years Ed Barbeau has edited a wonderful column in the '' College Mathematics Journal'' called Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam.  In
Ed's column in the November 2005 issue of the Journal, Norton Starr provides a contribution called "Logarithmic behaviour as metaphor".  Norton provides examples from a wide variety of writers saying that something is growing laragithmically when they meant growing exponentially.   
Ed's column in the November 2005 issue of the ''College Math Journal'' Norton Starr provides a contribution called "Logarithmic behaviour as metaphor".  Norton provides examples from a wide variety of writers saying that something is growing Logarrithmically when they meant it is growing exponentially.   


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Quotation

The weather man is never wrong. Suppose he says that there's an 80% chance of rain. If it rains, the 80% chance came up; if it doesn't, the 20% chance came up! - Saul Barron .

From: Stastical Quotations

Forsooth

Literary License

"'Four million ... heard it. Ten percent remember it. One percent of those matter. One percent of those do something about it. That's still' - he does the math - 'four people.'" From: _The Betrayal_, by Sabin Willett, NY: Villard (Random House), 1998.

Submitted by Margaret Cibes

Logarithmetic behavior as metaphor

For many years Ed Barbeau has edited a wonderful column in the College Mathematics Journal called Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam. In Ed's column in the November 2005 issue of the College Math Journal Norton Starr provides a contribution called "Logarithmic behaviour as metaphor". Norton provides examples from a wide variety of writers saying that something is growing Logarrithmically when they meant it is growing exponentially.

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