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RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)


From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:29:10 -0700


|> From: Alex Bligh [mailto:alex () alex org uk]
|> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:20 AM
|> 
|> --On Wednesday, 29 August, 2001 10:25 AM -0700 Roeland Meyer 
|> <rmeyer () mhsc com> wrote:
|> 
|> > To boost this point, exponential growth, approaching 
|> infinity, becomes
|> > asymptotic.
|> 
|> The only asymptote of an exponential curve is it's asymptote towards
|> the X axis, for as X approaches negative infinity.

The point remains that it is nonsensical, given a finite universe. The curve
doesn't fit observable reality.


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