Re: FW: a very important equation

1998-08-19 Thread Jay Hanson
There is no intrinsic growth for humans, there is too much social/cultural impact. The human capacity to interact with the environment and to forsee/simulate the results of such an equation, and manipulate all factors adds some uncomfortable maths to this equation... I have one of Ree's

Re: FW: a very important equation

1998-08-19 Thread Tom Walker
Eva Durant wrote, yes, i stopped reading it when lot of the variables were arbitrarily called constants, when most of them never are. Too many people are already causalties of the present economics, I think acting earlier is better, whereever is the alleged point of inflection, I have the

FW: a very important equation

1998-08-18 Thread Tom Walker
From a lecture on populations by Dr. Stephen T. Abedon http://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/mans/microbio/biol1540.htm "a very important equation: A differential equation approximating the sigmoidal growth curve of an ideal population is: dN/dt = rN(K - N) / K where r is the intrinsic rate of