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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 06 August 2012 04:45:29PM 3 points [-]

What if instead of growing exponentially without bound, it decays exponentially to the bound of your utility function?

I think you mean 'asymptotically'.

Comment author: rocurley 06 August 2012 06:13:22PM 6 points [-]

Exponentially decaying functions are part of the general class of asymptotic functions; both versions are correct.

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