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    But if the data originates from an exponential, any selection of two points will yield a different slope, because the data point lie not exactly on a straight line.

    You suggested to model it linearly, that is what we are discussing here.

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        6 days ago

        Your data, no because I have no access to the actually values. But just a plot of a line that seems very straight (but does not necessarily need to be), and measuring it manually will introduce some noise.

        In my data, that I generated, yes there I know for a fact that it is from an exponential.

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            I am well aware what a graph is and that it shows the actually values, but to obtain some actually values to perform manually some calculations we need to extract some explicit values from the image. This is however not arbitrarily precise and therefore will add some noise to the extracted values.

            My data is simply y = exp(x).