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FiftyTwo comments on NKCDT: The Big Bang Theory - Less Wrong Discussion

-12 [deleted] 10 November 2012 01:15PM

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 10 November 2012 07:43:25PM -1 points [-]

Community in general and particularly Abed is exponentially better than the Big Bang Theory.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 November 2012 02:28:21AM 0 points [-]

... That comment did not make a lot of mathematical sense, though I understand the gist of it. Perhaps "orders of magintude better" might be more appropriate?

Comment author: Kindly 11 November 2012 02:36:54AM 0 points [-]

Clearly, what FiftyTwo intended to say is that the difference in quality doubles with each successive episode of the respective shows.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 November 2012 05:36:43PM 0 points [-]

he said "exponential" not "exponential with base 2 and time constant equal to 1.0 per show".

It could just as easily be something else, like 3 times better per show.

Also, didn't specify the axis and we are only assuming it's per show. It could be that "tbbt" and "community" are points on some axis, and quality varies exponentially along it such that community is better than tbbt.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 November 2012 02:45:11AM 0 points [-]

Oh, that makes sense.