{"id":874,"date":"2009-04-17T07:32:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T05:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/?p=874"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:40:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:40:55","slug":"power-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/2009\/04\/17\/power-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Power function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\/cgi\/display\/30007579?rss=1\">Word of the day<\/a><\/i> for the OED is <i>Power function<\/i> (go there fast, as the page will disappear after one day!).<br \/>\nThe first quotation given is from 1914, which seems a bit late, so it wouldn&#8217;t be surprising if simple searches were to yield earlier instances (as <a href=\"http:\/\/quomodocumque.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/07\/19th-century-algorithms\/\">happened for algorithms<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Word of the day for the OED is Power function (go there fast, as the page will disappear after one day!). The first quotation given is from 1914, which seems a bit late, so it wouldn&#8217;t be surprising if simple searches were to yield earlier instances (as happened for algorithms).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}