In terms of one of the other great challenges facing the world, that of the climate change emergency, we also know the cure for eliminating the exponential growth of fossil-fuel use. For more than a ...

Doubling time—a concept easier to understand than growth rate. The research team conducted an experiment in which over 400 participants were presented with the same scenario: a country currently ...

By the way, extending the doubling time like this is equivalent to reducing the growth rate from 26 percent to 9 percent -- something that few people recognise intuitively.

This alarming thought of exponential growth infecting an enormous number of people in such a short time is not our likely fate with the COVID-19 coronavirus, for a few reasons.

Exponential growth is characterized by a quantity doubling itself in a particular time period over and over again, and this can lead to surprisingly large numbers very quickly.

In pandemic terms, "exponential growth" means infections accelerate over time. In New York City, the percentage of people testing positive for COVID-19 doubled over three days. Exponential growth ...

COVID-19’s exponential growth. ... In the early days of the outbreak, the doubling rate — the time it took for the number of cases to double — was between three and six days for many countries.