The media regularly refers to "exponential" growth in the number of cases of COVID-19 respiratory disease, and deaths from the disease, but the numbers suggest something else, a "small world ...

Exponential growth is so difficult to visualize that it is often graphed in a special way, Lipson said. It's called a logarithmic scale, and it's easy to spot: Just look for graphs, like the one ...

Feb. 18 — 25 Feb. 25 — 59 Mar. 3 — 125 Mar. 10 — 1,004 “That is exponential growth,” Dr. Nick Jewell said. (He noted that the latest increase was also likely a reflection of increased ...

Both the logistic growth function and the Gompertz growth function are used to describe growth processes. In this paper it is argued that, although the logistic has been more studied, the Gompertz ...