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What is the name of the function $f(x)=\frac{1}{x}$?

I'm facing this function: $$f(x)=\frac{1}{x}$$ What I know is that the above equation is one of the simplest forms of "rational functions", where the numerator is $1$ and the denominator is $x$. Is ...
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What consitutes an exponential function?

I was recently having a discussion with someone, and we found that we could not agree on what an exponential function is, and thus we could not agree on what exponential growth is. Wikipedia claims ...