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
The beetles have infested more than 700 square miles, and are increasing in geometrical progression.
From Time Magazine Archive
Human increase, he says, is a "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
It is therefore easy to see that yeast increases in quantity by what some call "leaps and bounds," but which the mathematically minded know as geometrical progression.
From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.
