You aren't even an engineer or a mathematician, by your own admission, so stop trying to splain figurin' to me.
You can put anything you want on the x and y axis.
When it is new cases on Y, and days on X, and it is roughly the same each day, over a 5 or 6 day period, that ain't exponential. That's what I'm talking about, ExNYer.
If at first it is 50 per day, and 6 days later, it is 500 per day, that portion of the curve for that graph is exponential over the time frame, like NYC.
Texas ain't got that!
Originally Posted by friendly fred
I have plenty of math training, so apparently I DO have to explain it to you.
The Texas curve was a rising exponential on 4/9, didn't you see it dimwit? It wasn't as bad as NY, but it was not linear and it certainly was not horizontal.
Show me where the number of cases is flat for Texas. It hasn't been.
STOP MAKING SHIT UP.
As of today, 4/13, the cases in Texas are still rising. However, they are rising more slowly. The curve appears to be being to the right, indicating it may finally be about to flatten over the last 2-3 days.
Let's hope that continues. But the idiot Gnadfly wrote on 3/24 that the curve was already flattened. And he was told specifically that he was at least two weeks too early to say that. Looks like his critics were correct. Of course, the curve isn't actually flattened yet. That does not happen until it is a horizontal line. That could be a week or ten days away.
I cannot get the picture of the Texas curve to enlarge full size or convert it to a jpeg.
https://coronavirusintexas.org/
But enlarge the graph in the lower right corner to full page and look at the last 3 data points for April 11-13. It is still rising, but more slowly. Let's hope it goes horizontal soon.