geometrical progression

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And he said Wagner's casualties were "growing in geometrical progression every day" because of the lack of ammunition.

From BBC • May 7, 2023

The beetles have infested more than 700 square miles, and are increasing in geometrical progression.

From Time Magazine Archive

Human increase, he says, is a "geometrical progression."

From Time Magazine Archive

"It is quite impossible," says Darwin, "for any arithmetical progression to fight against a geometrical progression."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is obvious that at the end of n such operations the charge on A will be rnQ, so that the charge goes on increasing in geometrical progression.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various