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To: El Canadiense who wrote (88762)	8/24/2011 2:09:13 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) of 233789

I think they mean hyperbolic, or exponential. It is the hyperbola which hugs the abcissa/ordinate where a=b never to touch. So more than just parallel lines never meet. Going parabolic, e.g. down and then up gradually is not preferred. Exponential growth grows to infinity as time goes to infinity (but is always finite for finite time), hyperbolic growth has a singularity in finite time (grows to infinity at a finite time). So if we are talking a "ballistic", we mean really hyperbolic or nearly infinite in slope in finite time. Exponential by comparison is slow. I think "ballistic" would be a bad comparator to sudden expansion. Ballistic growth if there were such a thing would swiftly decay and eventually fail quicker and steeper than it grew. Of course that is close to reality, but probably not what the hyperbolator means. EC<:-}

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