When graphing exponential functions, the information increases so quickly it is impossible to get everything to fit on a normal sized graph. For example, if you say that in one hour three people get information and they pass it onto three more people the next hour, who in turn each pass it on to three other people, the number of people with information goes form 3 to 243 in about 5 hours. If you make it so information is passed at a more realistic amount of time, say every 15 seconds, then 243 people have seen the information in only 105 minutes (1.75 hours). Now lets make it so 100 people saw the information at first and passed it on to 100 more. That would make it so that 10,000 people would have seen it in an hour, 1,000,000 in two hours and 100,000,000 in three. That is a lot of people in a short amount of time. As time passes, the number of people who have seen the information keeps increasing by larger and larger amounts. If the graph is adjusted, the values increase by the equation x equals y to the x power. So 3 hours (x) would equal 3(y) to the 3rd power which is 27. Information travels extremely fast, and looking at the work we've done, it is easy to see how quickly it can ruin someones life.
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