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From: beebe@math.utah.edu (Nelson H. F. Beebe)
Subject: [TUHS] Questions for TUHS great minds
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 07:27:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CMM.0.96.0.1484663262.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu> (raw)

Tim Bradshaw <tfb at tfeb.org> writes on 17 Jan 2017 13:09 +0000

>> I think we've all lived in a wonderful time where it seemed like
>> various exponential processes could continue for ever: they can't.

For an update on the exponential scaling (Moore's Law et al), see
this interesting new paper:

	Peter J. Denning and Ted G. Lewis
	Exponential laws of computing growth
	Comm. ACM 60(1) 54--65 January 2017
	https://doi.org/10.1145/2976758

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             reply	other threads:[~2017-01-17 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-17 14:27 Nelson H. F. Beebe [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-01-11  2:33 Robert Swierczek
2017-01-11 16:25 ` Ron Natalie
2017-01-11 16:50   ` Jacob Goense
2017-01-11 17:01     ` Corey Lindsly
2017-01-11 17:54       ` Marc Rochkind
2017-01-11 20:32       ` Jacob Goense
2017-01-11 18:34 ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-11 19:46   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-17 13:09   ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-17 13:36     ` Michael Kjörling
2017-01-17 19:55     ` Steve Johnson
2017-02-01 23:32       ` Erik E. Fair

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