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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Note that if you had a variable without an exponent in a denominator, then the exponent would actually be -1 which is different than 1 and the function would be non-linear.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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