Happy 2018
A New Year's cartoon: someone hopes the year-over-year exhaustion is only linear; a friend points out that two data points fit any growth pattern.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-01-01-happy-2018/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "2016 was exhausting... 2017 even moreso... and if the pattern grows linearly..."
B: "Well, really, two points could define almost any growth pattern." A: "True... that's some solace..."
B: "Quadratic, cubic, exponential..." A: "NO NO NO NO"
[Caption] "Happy 2018 from Math with Bad Drawings!"