title_body: Why is the growth in value of ADA being described as "parabolic" rather than "exponential" or something else? Here I list multiple articles since March 2021 that have described ADA's value as undergoing a &quot;parabolic&quot; trajectory:
  
  26 March 2021: Cardano Technical Analysis: ADA Has Flipped The Parabolic SAR From Bullish To Bearish
  17 March 2021: Cardano Is a Rising Altcoin Star, but the Payoff May Be Years Away
  2 April 2021: An Emerging Trend Could Mean Wild Prices Ahead for Cardano
  
  In the field of stocks and securities, the term &quot;parabolic SAR&quot; was coined in 1978 by J. Welles Wilder Jr. (who unfortunately died 9 days ago by the way).
  In the cryptocurrency community, why is ADA's growth seemingly always being described as &quot;parabolic&quot; rather than &quot;exponential&quot; or following some other type of growth curve?
upvoted_answer: Searching Google for &quot;cardano ada exponential&quot; gives ~305k results.
  Searching Google for &quot;cardano ada parabolic&quot; gives ~309k results.
  Likely is just some resistance in the community to the mass-media habit of applying the adjective &quot;exponential&quot; for any sort of super-linear growth.  I don't know that parabolic is a better adjective, but it seems to be adapted by the community.