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Law of Growth


An exponential growth law of the form

 y=ar^x

characterizing a quantity which increases at a fixed rate proportionally to itself.


See also

Growth, Logistic Map, Population Growth

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References

Kenney, J. F. and Keeping, E. S. "The Law of Growth." §4.12 in Mathematics of Statistics, Pt. 1, 3rd ed. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, pp. 56-57, 1962.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Law of Growth." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/LawofGrowth.html

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