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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 07 August 2009 12:00:26AM *  0 points [-]

By "compression rate" I meant "compression ratio". Sorry for the confusion. But you know that if something grows exponentially, all of its nth derivatives do also, right?

I did know that the actual universe probably has some physical limits in how you can shrink a computation in space and/or time, thus my question. Actually, I thought you might have done the not-math "exponential" as a way of saying "A LOT!!!"

Comment author: PhilGoetz 07 August 2009 12:05:56AM *  0 points [-]

Okay, it is the same thing as saying that compression rate can grow exponentially.

I meant exponential. I don't know if I believe it's exponential, but almost all other futurists say that things are speeding up (time is compressing) exponentially.