[41092] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Wed Aug 29 14:37:08 2001
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:39:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: 'Alex Bligh' <alex@alex.org.uk>,
'Leo Bicknell' <bicknell@ufp.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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> |> > 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.
This is math. Observable reality is irrelevant.
Alex
