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  2. Exponential growth - Wikipedia

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    Exponential growth is a process that increases quantity over time at an ever-increasing rate. It occurs when the instantaneous rate of change (that is, the derivative) of a quantity with respect to time is proportional to the quantity itself. Described as a function, a quantity undergoing exponential growth is an exponential function of time ...

  3. Generating function - Wikipedia

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    The asymptotic growth of the coefficients of this generating function can then be sought via the finding of A, B, α, β, and r to describe the generating function, as above. Similar asymptotic analysis is possible for exponential generating functions; with an exponential generating function, it is ⁠ a n / n!

  4. Malthusian growth model - Wikipedia

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    A Malthusian growth model, sometimes called a simple exponential growth model, is essentially exponential growth based on the idea of the function being proportional to the speed to which the function grows. The model is named after Thomas Robert Malthus, who wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), one of the earliest and most ...

  5. Erdős–Rényi model - Wikipedia

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    e. In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Erdős–Rényi model refers to one of two closely related models for generating random graphs or the evolution of a random network. These models are named after Hungarian mathematicians Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi, who introduced one of the models in 1959. [1][2] Edgar Gilbert introduced the ...

  6. The Limits to Growth - Wikipedia

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    The Limits to Growth (often abbreviated LTG) is a 1972 report [2] that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation. [3] The study used the World3 computer model to simulate the consequence of interactions between the Earth and human systems.

  7. Random Fibonacci sequence - Wikipedia

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    A random Fibonacci sequence is an integer random sequence given by the numbers for natural numbers, where = = and the subsequent terms are chosen randomly according to the random recurrence relation = {+,;,. An instance of the random Fibonacci sequence starts with 1,1 and the value of the each subsequent term is determined by a fair coin toss: given two consecutive elements of the sequence ...

  8. Biological exponential growth - Wikipedia

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    Biological exponential growth is the unrestricted growth of a population of organisms, occurring when resources in its habitat are unlimited. Most commonly apparent in species that reproduce quickly and asexually, like bacteria , exponential growth is intuitive from the fact that each organism can divide and produce two copies of itself.

  9. Probability distribution - Wikipedia

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    A probability distribution is a mathematical description of the probabilities of events, subsets of the sample space. The sample space, often represented in notation by is the set of all possible outcomes of a random phenomenon being observed. The sample space may be any set: a set of real numbers, a set of descriptive labels, a set of vectors ...