Doublings

So in ~20 years, we'll have undergone 10 doublings, which is a factor of 1000 improvement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Plymouth during the vexatious attendance upon the scoundrelly Master of the SPEEDWELL, in his "doublings" in the English Channel. ❋ Azel Ames (1876)

How vast the difference between the "doublings" of the 15th and the 19th centuries! ❋ Unknown (1859)

You could make an iPhone as thin as a credit card, but that's only a few "doublings" away from its current state, and then what? ❋ Unknown (2008)

"doublings" when the notes of the horn dropped down into the gorge. ❋ Joel Chandler Harris (1878)

A new growth mode should arise sometime within about the next seven industry mode doublings (i.e., the next seventy years) and give a new wealth doubling time of between seven and sixteen days. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If a new growth transition were to be similar to the last few, in terms of the number of doublings and the increase in the growth rate, then the remarkable consistency in the previous transitions allows a remarkably precise prediction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The chance came in one of his quick doublings and counter-circlings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But using the Rule of 72 (72 divided by number of years to get approximate doubling time) and a little back-of-the-envelop arithmetic, I come up with 1.75% compounding interest producing a 32-fold (5 doublings) increase in the space of 210 years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Secondly, technology will probably keep pace with population for several more doublings, but there are limits to geometric expansion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And finally, another elderly man whose wife has died – Great House is full of such doublings – tries to find out how his wife ended up with the desk in 1948 and why she gave it to Daniel Varsky two decades later. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In other doublings—Benedict Wong's splendidly spoken Laertes is a player/musician; Marcellus Callum Dixon too, plus several other minor roles—lead us to suspect that Elsinore is an institution that specializes in treating dissociative identity disorder. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

Brahms, for one, preferred the earlier version, which is more lightly scored and has some elegant instrumental touches that are obscured by the doublings and more massive sound of the revision. ❋ Mark J. Estren (2010)

Please note that two more doublings give us over a billion people sharing America. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That means we had six doublings of the original European population (4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256). ❋ Unknown (2009)

But that's actually right on schedule: by the time you get to 1 per cent you're only seven doublings away. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

I agree with the vast majority of what you said, but it's really easy as composers to write for other people who marvel at each others voicings and doublings in each others orchestrations, and at some essential point, forget to communicate with the listener. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

For example, in mobile phones you start from the oscillation in the megahertz range and after some doublings of frequency you can get the microwave range. ❋ Unknown (2007)