# Geometric vs Exponential Growth

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 21, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geometric-vs-exponential-growth/23147 "2000-06-21T22:50:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geometric-vs-exponential-growth/23147/22 "2020-03-19T03:03:41Z")

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I agree with the old replies (and **Thudlow Boink** ): let’s call growth like xᵃ polynomial growth, to be distinguished from the much faster exponential growth aˣ of, e.g., a Fibonacci sequence. A geometric sequence a\*b^x increases exponentially.

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