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geometric progression

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geometric progression: see progression progression, in mathematics, sequence of quantities, called terms, in which the relationship between consecutive terms is the same. An arithmetic progression is a sequence in which each term is derived from the preceding one by adding a given number, d,
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geometric progression
a sequence of numbers, each of which differs from the succeeding one by a constant ratio, as 1, 2, 4, 8, …


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Since the base is square, each new layer shows a geometric progression, such as 1X1, 2X2, 3X3, and 4X4.
The geometric progression in terms of the types of different stories he can tell is endless.
This situation is similar to the development of SCSI, where the transition has gone from five megabytes per second to 160MB/sec utilizing a geometric progression.
 
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