On 20 Apr, 15:22, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-04-20, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Which is nonsense. The goal is to go from A - ignorance - to B - > > knowledge - which both lie on the X-Axis. > > Well if you want to do it that way, nobody can stop you, but people > in the habit of processing numbers usually put the time on the X-axis > like in time spend learning or exercising and put the other value > on the Y-axis.
But time wasn't mentioned. You could have knowledge or accomplishment on the X axis and effort or work on the Y axis. Subjects with more material to learn could be said to have a "long learning curve"; an example of such usage can be found here: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/3207/5/ But if the nature of the material is not particularly challenging, you could say that a "shallow learning curve" is involved: you don't need to think very hard about the material. Conversely, a "steep learning curve" in the popular sense suggests more effort being expended for a given measure of material. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
