From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 27 10: 6: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02EF715F6C for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:06:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:05:33 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Michael Robinson" , Cc: Subject: RE: Learning curves (was Re: Newbee) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:05:32 -0700 Message-ID: <000a01bef0ae$5f73e880$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <199908271549.XAA29148@netrinsics.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It seems that the professionals (i.e. "eggheads") use flat slope (i.e. > "shallow learning curve") to refer to a difficult-to-learn task, and steep > slope (i.e. "steep learning curve") to refer to an easy-to-learn task. > > -Michael Robinson Which is only logical. A steep slope means that one variable changes rapidly with respect to the other one. A shallow slope means you have to move one variable pretty far to move the other one just a little. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message