[41090] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Wed Aug 29 14:26:56 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Alex Bligh' <alex@alex.org.uk>, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>,
'Leo Bicknell' <bicknell@ufp.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:29:10 -0700
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|> From: Alex Bligh [mailto:alex@alex.org.uk]
|> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:20 AM
|>
|> --On Wednesday, 29 August, 2001 10:25 AM -0700 Roeland Meyer
|> <rmeyer@mhsc.com> 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.
