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Re: OpenOffice to the rescue!

Thufir <hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:16:37 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
> 
> 
>> Um, no.  The "need" is not described by a learning curve, rather, the
>> difficulty of learning.  Steep means you learn quickly, shallow means
>> that you learn slowly.
> 
> "In this sense, "steep learning curve" represents the need to make
> significant progress in the initial stages so that a person may start
> using the new skill with reasonable efficiency, a need often
> associated with increased efforts in learning."

This is not the proper meaning of learning curve.  It might have come
into common usage as a commonly made mistake, but it doesn't make it
right, it remains what it is - wrong.



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