On Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 1:38:37 AM UTC-6 Russell Standish wrote:
On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 09:50:46PM -0700, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > On Friday, September 20, 2024 at 10:39:20 PM UTC-6 Russell Standish wrote: > The term comes from an expected step change where technology starts to > advance hyperbolically rather than exponentially like it has been > doing since Ogg smashed rocks together. Hyperbolic growth reaches > infinity in a finite amount of time. > > > That's impossible. AG > It's mathematics! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_growth You're misinterpreting the mathematics. E.g., 1/x becomes arbitrarily large as x --> 0, but the function is undefined at x=0. So, if you're considering something physical, at x=0, you can't get there, and certainly not in a finite amount of time. AG ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b40669cd-2a0e-4ce0-b8c8-b2a5d3d8400dn%40googlegroups.com.
