'SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID
FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON ( wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id )
WHERE 1=1 AND (
wp_posts.ID NOT IN (
SELECT object_id
FROM wp_term_relationships
WHERE term_taxonomy_id IN (47485,47486)
)
) AND (
(
( wp_postmeta.meta_key = \'the_author\' AND wp_postmeta.meta_value = \'1152348\' )
OR
( wp_postmeta.meta_key = \'secondary_author\' AND wp_postmeta.meta_value LIKE \'{08e87081f0bd7e4be8b227efb6e0ae5e03f29bc98283205d7d8080e11583b5cb}\\"1152348\\"{08e87081f0bd7e4be8b227efb6e0ae5e03f29bc98283205d7d8080e11583b5cb}\' )
)
) AND wp_posts.post_type = \'post\' AND ((wp_posts.post_status = \'publish\'))
GROUP BY wp_posts.ID
ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC
LIMIT 0, 6'
Prof Al Bartlett’s exposition of exponential growth
Prof. Al Bartlett offers useful approximations for understanding exponential growth and its alarming consequences. He gives two rules of thumb for quick calculations about exponential growth but it’s worth noting that these are approximations, quite accurate for small percentage growth values, but not correct for large rates of growth.
February 11, 2010
