At 08:02 PM 10/20/99 -0400, Darxus wrote:
>I know, but I thought the algorhythms for fitting linear & exponential
>lines would differ enough to result in at least a small difference in
>results.
The method of fitting an exponential that I use basically takes the log of
both sides and does a linear least squares on that.
> Right. Using the actual exponents (instead of the # of digits) should,
>usually, yield more accurate results, right ?
It should. Of course, the number of digits is very close to 0.30103 * the
exponent, so there shouldn't be much difference.
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