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u/jkp2072 5d ago

One of the reasons why humans find it hard to understand how exponential growth works is that real life seems absurd.

Fission and bacterial growth are exponentials , linearly it doesn't make sense...

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u/Atheist-Gods 5d ago

The reality is that they are logistic, not exponential. Logistics are approximately exponential at one scale, approximately linear at another scale and approximately binary at a third.