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."
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The beetles have infested more than 700 square miles, and are increasing in geometrical progression.
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"It is quite impossible," says Darwin, "for any arithmetical progression to fight against a geometrical progression."
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More labourers may then be employed without limit, and rent and profit together must not only increase, but increase in a geometrical progression.
From Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 by Ricardo, David