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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
...even an exponential "curve" can be viewed as being linear...if you expand the timescale enough (wink,wink)!
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You mean contract, right? The larger the scale is the more parabolic an exponential curve looks. If someone looks at a small section where the range is sufficiently restricted, like the left portion of this curve, then it could look linear.
Anyway, the whole deal w/ exponential growth is that the increase over whatever interval will always be greater than the increase over a previous interval, ie growth can't slow down, which is the opposite of what population is doing.