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Originally Posted by chrisl
Technically, drag increases quadratically with speed, which is quite a bit better than if it were to increase exponentially.
(Sorry - my inner engineer is picky about that sort of thing)
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Uh X^2 is exponential as well as quadratic.
A square is a rectangle but not all rectangles are squares.
He isn't wrong, you're just being pedantic. And not in a useful way, you could have at least linked some literature:
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_equation"]Drag equation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]