What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)

Wed Aug 29 18:29:10 UTC 2001

|> From: Alex Bligh [mailto:alex at alex.org.uk]
|> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:20 AM
|> 
|> --On Wednesday, 29 August, 2001 10:25 AM -0700 Roeland Meyer 
|> <rmeyer at mhsc.com> wrote:
|> 
|> > To boost this point, exponential growth, approaching 
|> infinity, becomes
|> > asymptotic.
|> 
|> The only asymptote of an exponential curve is it's asymptote towards
|> the X axis, for as X approaches negative infinity.

The point remains that it is nonsensical, given a finite universe. The curve
doesn't fit observable reality.