Offshore's rapid growth was not confined to Europe, with the number of global platforms growing by a factor of four to provide 4,000 MW of grid-connected electricity, twice the previous record set in 2013, according to BNEF.
If its trajectory is altered by as little as 0.38 millimeters over the course of the next 140 million years, explains Laskar, that incredibly tiny difference would be magnified steadily by repeated encounters with Jupiter's gravity, growing by a factor of 10 about every 10 million years.
Detroit's black population grew by a factor of twenty-four.
There are 1,202 male billionaires – but their number has only grown by a factor of 5.2.
According to the Office for National Statistics, GDP per person has grown by a factor of 3.5 since 1955, allowing for inflation.
Power from wind turbines is meant to double by 2010 and grow by a factor of 12 by 2020.
The number of sites being indexed by Google has grown by a factor of more than 1,000 in the eight years since it began, she said.
The amount available for Perkins loans, Ms. Lewin writes, would grow by a factor of 8, to $8 billion, from the current $1 billion.
In Enterprise, Nev., population 65,000, which led small-town growth for every major racial group, the Hispanic population grew by a factor of five, to 9,800, and the Asian population grew thirteenfold, to 10,200.
But by 2011, the company had made distribution deals with retailers like Walmart and Bed Bath & Beyond, and U.S. sales had grown by a factor of ten, to forty million.
Over that period the price of a standard apartment in Riga grew by a factor of almost seven, according to data provided by Arco Real Estate, which has offices in Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria and Ukraine.
