Ask ordinary software developers how to code an exponential function (that is, ex) and most will tell you to simply write an expression in their favorite high level language. But a significant slic… ...

Exponential growth is a pattern of data that shows greater increases with passing time, creating the curve of an exponential function.

You could use a computer to fit an exponential function to the data and measure how well it fits. But how about just turning an exponential function into a linear function?