__/ [ Mike Cox ] on Sunday 28 January 2007 20:48 \__
> Last year the desktop linux market share was at 2%. Two years ago it
> was at 1%. If linux increases it's market share by one percentage
> point per year, we should expect Linux to be the dominant desktop OS
> in about 100 years assuming the current growth rate. Linus Torvalds
> will be 138 years old when that happens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth
"In mathematics, eXPonential growth (or geometric growth) occurs when the
growth rate of a function is always proportional to the function's current
size."
*plonk*
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