Extremely fast growth. On a chart, the line curves up rather than being straight. Contrast with linear. See rice and chessboard legend. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...
The law, however, promises exponential growth in linear time ... Here you have a law where not only the meaning – transistors, performance, or speed – can change, but also the duration.
Two basic principles are involved, the idea of exponential growth and its ultimate control ... the arbitrary constants with biological meaning. Consider the situation in Figure 7.