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Originally Posted by roflwaffle

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.

Doesn't exponential just mean that X is happening at the rate of some exponent?

That would mean that ANYTHING could be qualified as exponential, because exponents don't need to be integers, nor do they need to be logical numbers.

I.E. an exponent can be a fraction, percent, etc.