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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 12:57:49 -0700


|> From: alex () yuriev com [mailto:alex () yuriev com]
|> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:40 AM
|> 
|> > |> > 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.
|> 
|> This is math. Observable reality is irrelevant.

ROTFLMAO!

However, let me re-state that the curve doesn't even fit probable reality.


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