Error Growth
Suppose that Ei > 0 denotes an initial error and En represents the magnitude of an error after n subsequent operations. If En ∼ C∙n∙Ei, where C is a constant independent of n, then the growth of the error is said to be linear. If En ∼ Cn∙Ei, for some C > 1, then the growth of the error is called exponential.
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