Quotes about Doubling

Exponential progression is compound doubling. Four times four equals sixteen.

At the time of Christ the world population stood at about 200 million. By AD 1200 the world population had doubled to about 400 million. By the time of the American Revolution, in 1776, the world population had doubled again, to about 800 million. The population doubled again by 1900, to about 1.6 billion. The population doubled again by 1960, to more than 3 billion.1 From the time of Christ the population doubles in

If what was stolen is actually found alive in his possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—he must pay back double.