Coronavirus curve graphs suck for a myriad of reasons, but one is that I have to refresh myself on calculus every time I see them for them to make any sense, and also, I'm pretty sure more than 50% of people don't actually know what they're depicting for that reason
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I just looked it up and if you're looking at a graph, the term for the first derivative at a given point is the "slope", the term for the second derivative is the "curvature" and the third derivative is the "aberrancy"
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I.e. if the third derivative isn't zero the curve won't be perfectly symmetrical, just like having a second derivative means having a curve and not a straight line
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