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  2. Geometric progression - Wikipedia

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    Diagram illustrating three basic geometric sequences of the pattern 1(r n−1) up to 6 iterations deep.The first block is a unit block and the dashed line represents the infinite sum of the sequence, a number that it will forever approach but never touch: 2, 3/2, and 4/3 respectively.

  3. Progressive tax - Wikipedia

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    The rate of tax can be expressed in two different ways; the marginal rate expressed as the rate on each additional unit of income or expenditure (or last dollar spent) and the effective (average) rate expressed as the total tax paid divided by total income or expenditure. In most progressive tax systems, both rates will rise as the amount ...

  4. Geometric series - Wikipedia

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    The geometric series is an infinite series derived from a special type of sequence called a geometric progression.This means that it is the sum of infinitely many terms of geometric progression: starting from the initial term , and the next one being the initial term multiplied by a constant number known as the common ratio .

  5. Progressivity in United States income tax - Wikipedia

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    If the federal taxation rate is compared with the wealth distribution rate, the net wealth (not only income but also including real estate, cars, house, stocks, etc.) distribution of the United States does almost coincide with the share of income tax - the top 1% pay 36.9% of federal tax (wealth 32.7%), the top 5% pay 57.1% (wealth 57.2%), top ...

  6. Geometric distribution - Wikipedia

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    If p = 1/n and X is geometrically distributed with parameter p, then the distribution of X/n approaches an exponential distribution with expected value 1 as n → ∞, since (/ >) = (>) = = = [()] [] =. More generally, if p = λ/n, where λ is a parameter, then as n→ ∞ the distribution of X/n approaches an exponential distribution with rate ...

  7. Exponential growth - Wikipedia

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    For any fixed b not equal to 1 (e.g. e or 2), the growth rate is given by the non-zero time τ. For any non-zero time τ the growth rate is given by the dimensionless positive number b. Thus the law of exponential growth can be written in different but mathematically equivalent forms, by using a different base.

  8. Growth rate (group theory) - Wikipedia

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    for some , < we say that G has a polynomial growth rate. The infimum k 0 {\displaystyle k_{0}} of such k' s is called the order of polynomial growth . According to Gromov's theorem , a group of polynomial growth is a virtually nilpotent group , i.e. it has a nilpotent subgroup of finite index .

  9. Rate of convergence - Wikipedia

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    Any sequence that is asymptotically equivalent to a convergent geometric sequence may be either be said to "converge geometrically" or "converge exponentially" with respect to the absolute difference from its limit, or it may be said to "converge linearly" relative to a logarithm of the absolute difference such as the "number of decimals of ...