Sentence examples for a geometric progression from inspiring English sources

On the bottom, again with alpha positive, but now with its magnitude less than 1, we have a geometric progression that is exponentially or geometrically decaying.

The scale of magnitudes comprises a geometric progression of brightness.

This is an example of what in mathematics is called a geometric progression.

It is a geometric progression built into the brain, imposed on an irregular world.

Four spreads of quarter-views follow, then eight of eighths, and so on, in a geometric progression to four-thousand-ninety-sixths.

Here's a visual example of how adding up fractions in a geometric progression can give you 1.

For instance, Provost et al. proposed progressive sampling using a geometric progression-based sampling schedule [ 31].

It is an inescapable truth of mathematics that any geometric progression will overtake any arithmetic one given enough time.

Assuming vampires only feed once a month ("a highly conservative assumption given any Hollywood vampire film"), and that each time a vampire feasts upon a human their respective populations increase/decrease by 1, a simple geometric progression suggests that vampires would wipe out humans in approximately 2.5 years (assuming arbitrarily that the first vampire appeared in the year 1400).

At the time he wrote 1,112 and Counting, the number of people diagnosed with AIDS was in the earliest stages of a deadly geometric progression.

Assuming an infinite geometric progression, we get the approximate A fv = T f / ( 1 − C f ).