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
Human increase, he says, is a "geometrical progression."
From Time Magazine Archive
The beetles have infested more than 700 square miles, and are increasing in 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
Again, a decreasing geometrical progression can be added up to infinity, the infinite number of its terms adding up in the sum-total to a finite number.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
