The rate of growth in the number of computer chips being produced is set to exceed the total energy capacity of the world by 2045.
Not exponential but a sigmoidal growth curve.
Is that in absolute terms or normalised?
It depends on whether one is computing hypergeometric functions using a Fourier Transform of the generalized logistic growth curve.
Of course.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
Your nose produces about one liter of phlegm each day! Keep swallowing!
If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.-Red Green
"Yo". Rocky
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The most valuable were the ones used to fix Our Lord Jesus Christ to the cross. There were enough of them to hold together the ships of entire navies. Only the foreskins of said Lord were more valuable. That was on account of their rarity. There were never more than a few hundred circulating in the economy.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
I think there's enough finger bones of John the Baptist for an entire typing pool.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT