Seriously. It’s about time we started talking math on an ongoing basis. This seems as good a place as any to open the floor.
What’s the ol’ saying… if it walks like a cube, and quacks like a cube, it’s a duck.
It's a plot of
y = x ^ 3
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No, it’s a “squiggle” 
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r ^ 2 = (x - h) ^ 2 + (y - k) ^ 2 where (h,k) is the centre point of your circle and r it’s radius.
g = c where g is the graph and c is a circle
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Given all our recent concerns, PI day flew right past us.
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It’ll come back around
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What will the curve tendency be in this…
>>> two_day_change = [23, 39, 56, 74]
>>> x = two_day_change
>>> [b / a for (a, b) in zip(x[:-1], x[1:])]
[1.6956521739130435, 1.435897435897436, 1.3214285714285714]
>>>
???
What does this mean?
It’s a little mathematical aside. 
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oh ok ty for telling!
I agree; looks like the cube function … y = x^3
What’s the code to make that graph in Matplotlib in Python?
Ok, so the sequence started x = [23, 39, 56, 74]
which is a quadratic sequence since the differences between the terms increase by a constant amount …
x = [23, 39, 56, 74]
print( [ x[i] - x[i - 1] for i in range(1,4) ] )[16, 17, 18]
I assume that curve tendency means the limit of this sequence ( meaning what we’d go to if we could go to an index of infinity )
b/a was the ratio of a term to the previous term of the sequence
So …
this ratio goes to 1 as we’d go infinitely far out in the sequence.
Using quadratic regression …
x[n] = 0.5*n**2 + 15.5*n + 23
Full disclosure: I used to be a math teacher. 
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