rise? run? slope?
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It really sounds as though they have a special word for "the overall shape or trend of the graph of a function". Y'know, like the eskimos have a dozen words for snow.Originally posted by WombatThe Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!
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I still kind of think its path, I just seem to remember it being used in that context in math lectures from uni ,it was a long while ago so I am a bit foggy on it.Comment
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Your original suggestion of "the function is increasing" is probably the best (and most correct) phrasing of the concept. All of my math books from calc through grad level seem to be in agreement.
If there is an English word to describe the "path a function is taking," as an Engineering/Mathematics teacher I'd be interested to learn it as well.Just a month left of grad school!Comment
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VJ, I think there is no such word in Enlgish for this, especially as I think there is no "need" to use the Dutch word of "verloop", or is there?Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
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A Dutch friend of mine thinks you want the word 'development'...should have an answer from another who is much more into mathematics later today.FT.Comment
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What about "form"? As in: "The form of this function resembles an inversed derivative of a standard hyperbolic function but this function differs in that it is even less understandable."? I think "form" might apply both to the graph as to the algebraic notation.Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
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direction translation means "the course of the function"
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Path is one I already considered, and it does seem to be more or less what I mean. Shape and form might be viable alternatives.
But as Umfriend said before, it is possible to rephrase so that I don't need the word. It would just have facilitated things...
Thanks for the suggestions!
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My other Dutch friend suggests you should redefine the problem...
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