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To: Lagmeister
In 4 months there are 34 thousand dead in the world from this virus.... How in the hell do you get over 80 thousand dying in the US... let alone 180 thousand.

That is the beauty of an exponential growth curve. It boggles the mind and challenges our intuition.

326 posted on 03/29/2020 6:31:56 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep
That is the beauty of an exponential growth curve. It boggles the mind and challenges our intuition.

Well, for a few of us who get to deal with real life exponential functions often, they are routine in one sense and easily comprehended, but, at the same time, they pound deep respect into one as well.

353 posted on 03/30/2020 2:55:48 PM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left wort h controlling.)
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