One of the greatest shortcomings of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. Most of us think linearly, but not Elon Musk.

Consequently, the ever-widening gap between exponential progress and our linear thinking presents a significant challenge for the modern human experience.

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series A (1961-2002), Vol. 64, No. 1 (Feb., 2002), pp. 156-166 (11 pages) We derive bivariate exponential distributions using independent auxiliary random ...