What does exponential mean?

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Geoffrey West is a physicist. He was born in a rural town in western England in 1940 and moved to London when he was 13. He received a bachelor's degree in physics from Cambridge and pursued graduate studies in California at Stanford. West eventually became a Stanford faculty member before he joined the particle theory group at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory. After Los Alamos, he became president of the Santa Fe Institute, where he works on biological issues around power laws in biology, or allometric law. He has since been honored as one of Time magazine's "Time 100" most influential people.

Stewart Brand is an American writer, best known as editor of the "Whole Earth Catalogue". He founded a number of organizations including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the author of several books, most recently "Whole Earth Discipline: An Eco-Pragmatist Manifesto".

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