geometrical progression
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And he said Wagner's casualties were "growing in geometrical progression every day" because of the lack of ammunition.
From BBC ● May 7, 2023
Human increase, he says, is a "geometrical progression."
From Time Magazine Archive
The beetles have infested more than 700 square miles, and are increasing in geometrical progression.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It is quite impossible," says Darwin, "for any arithmetical progression to fight against a geometrical progression."
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, given uniform conditions of temperature, if different altitudes were taken in arithmetical progression the respective pressures and densities would diminish in geometrical progression.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by James Weir
