Re: Killing [OT] was Re: Whats the longest running forth database you have created?

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Killing [OT] was Re: Whats the longest running forth database you have created?
Date	2013-07-01 11:35 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID	<2013Jul1.133548@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) writes:
>In article <356697a1-7626-4be9-a13a-a1e1edc34cb4@googlegroups.com>,
>the_gavino_himself  <visphatesjava@gmail.com> wrote:
>>economic growth is not exponential
>
>Until it falters, at least it is supposed to.
>
>Exponential growths are bound to falter, like the weed that double each
>day in the pond, until it covers the whole pond.

The real world is limited, so for real-world growth patterns that's
certainly true.  However, the "size" of the economy is an imaginary
concept, so it can be unlimited.

- anton
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Whats the longest running forth database you have created? the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2013-06-26 13:02 -0700
  Re: Whats the longest running forth database you have created? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-06-26 19:34 -1000
    Re: Whats the longest running forth database you have created? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-06-27 16:03 +0200
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  Killing [OT] was Re: Whats the longest running forth database you have created? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-06-28 02:17 +0000
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