On 26/10/2019 8:40 am, Karl Auer wrote:
Justin Oakes, a spokesman for the Eighth Air Force, said in an email. “This
replacement effort exponentially increased message storage capacity and
operator response times for critical nuclear command and control message
receipt and processing.”
It exponentially increased operator response times? How odd.
And the word "exponential" is meaningless in that context, if I might be
permitted a little winge about sloppy language use. A quantity increases or decreases
exponentially when its rate of change is proportional to its value, as many Linkers will
know, and a meaningful exponential cannot be fitted to only two data points.
Let's hope clearer thinking is applied to managing the nuclear arsenal.
Hurrumph...
David L.
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