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darrenmambo
on Nov 5, 2014
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Please grow your buffers exponentially
Although exponential is technically correct when the base is 2, I find it really masks what real exponential growth is like.
When I hear "exponential growth," I think 256, 65536, 4294967296, 2^64, 2^128
eru
on Nov 6, 2014
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2^(2^n) is a double exponential function. (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_exponential_function
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When I hear "exponential growth," I think 256, 65536, 4294967296, 2^64, 2^128