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Originally Posted by ADL Colin
The odds go up "at least exponentially"? Maybe you meant that figuratively.
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Nope... what I said is what I meant.
Systems of equations can expand faster than "exponentially."
Faster than exponential growths include doubly exponential (e.g. y^(e^x)), etc. and hyperbolically (the fastest form of growth we currently conceive of, I believe - typically used when dealing with matters of infinity and positive-feedback systems, such as black holes and what-not).
I think if you tell yourself something that you can affect is going to happen - the chances of that occurrence actually happening when compared to the suggestion not being there are at least squared (increased exponentially) and at most a mathematical near-certainty (increased hyperbolically).
Hope that clears what I meant up for you.