Simple Exponential Growth - a thousand times in ten years a billion times in thirty years Exponential Change – visually

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Exponential Exponential Growth
x y = 2^x
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a thousand times in ten years a billion times in thirty yearsExponential Change – visually
x y = 2^x
0 1
1 2
2 4
3 8
4 16
5 32
6 64
7 128
8 256
9 512
10 1024