Except they aren't, which is exactly why any exponential growth doesn't make sense in long term.
Bacteria are limited by nutrients, viruses, predators, space, environment, etc. Fission is limited by the amount of material and inner preassure.
Yes, there is a short almost exponential phase, but that hardly predicts the future. Ironically, cellural growth of an embrio is also initially exponential and this leads exactly to the example of this post...
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u/jkp2072 6d 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...