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From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
Subject: Re: Dialect or Language?difference=???
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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 20:29:28 GMT
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In article <3bjtbq$7mu@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>,
Hung J Lu <hlu@GAS.UUG.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
>I guess a more complete name is "negative exponential".
>(Or "exponential decay".) Graphically, it would look
>something like:
>
>N = number of languagues
>
>     ^
>     |*
>     |*
>     | *
>     |  **                     N = n0 + a exp(-b t)
>     |    ***
>     |       ****              n0 = small number (perhaps < 10?)
>     |           *****
>     |                ******
>     |                      *********
>     +------------------------------------> t = Time
>
>
>(... I have tried to figure out what you mean by logarithmic,
>but I gave up...)
>


No where's my copy of "Mathematical Tables and Formulas"...

Logarithmic curve:


 
	|
	|                            ***********
	|               *************
	|         ******
	|      ***
	|    **
------------*-----------------------------------
	|  * 
	| * 
	| *

The same curve, really, give or take a sign and a
translation :-)


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