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RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)

  • From: Roeland Meyer
  • Date: Wed Aug 29 14:29:02 2001 
|> From: Alex Bligh [mailto:[email protected]]
|> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:20 AM
|> 
|> --On Wednesday, 29 August, 2001 10:25 AM -0700 Roeland Meyer 
|> <[email protected]> wrote:
|> 
|> > 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.