Comparing Functions - At A Glance

Power the race horse, Polly the parrot, and Log the log walk...or roll...into a bar. After a couple root beers, Log challenges the others to a race on a horse track. Who will we bet on? Power, of course! Why would a log challenge a race horse to a race, anyway?

Some functions grow more quickly than others, and this section will help us determine which functions will dominate and which functions will lag behind. It'll come in handy for evaluating limits of some pretty gnarly functions.