exponential

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All of this is driving exponential -- exponentially-growing economic progress.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to an exponent.
  2. adjective Mathematics Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent.
  3. adjective Mathematics Expressed in terms of a designated power of e, the base of natural logarithms.

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  • All of this is driving exponential -- exponentially-growing economic progress. —  Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
  • My main message is that progress in technology is exponential, not linear. —  Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
  • It is quite interesting to look at population charts and predictions every 10 years - it's always exponential, and in every decade many people claimed that we're now at the turn-around point where population growth will reduce (which of course never happened). —  The J Curve
  • I've used the word exponential, and I think it's pertinent toward culture in general, particularly in New York or London. —  The Hollywood News
  • An average of the time course of these unfolding events was well described by a single exponential, which is a necessary condition for a memoryless Markovian process. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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