title_body: Why is the growth in value of ADA being described as "parabolic" rather than "exponential" or something else?
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.