doubling

F x = 2 * x\n\nAs you can see, this is a doubling function.

The doubling period for the price was halving with each iteration[1].

There are people here, actual paid economists, who are doubling up in laughter at your assertion.

This typeclass is called `Num`.So we can imagine, our doubling function only takes types that implement `Num`.

He kept doubling down and doubling down, then at right about the peak he told himself "I have as much money as I'll ever need if I cash out now.

That is, I feel the main insight of your post were two things: the doubling of tips, and the attribution of this to the buttons on the credit-card machine.

The company made $116 million in sales in 2012, according to people familiar with the company's financials, more than doubling its $46 million in revenue in 2011.

I'd be all-for doubling down on bomb-sniffing dogs, behavior analysts, and all that; but this apparent focus on "traditional" weapons seems totally asymmetric to the risk it presents.

Moore wrote a paper in 1965 that was the first reference to anything in semiconductors doubling every N months, but he also wrote wrote many other papers and speeches before the term "Moore's Law" came into use, and in some of them he talked about feature sizes shrinking every N months.

And their concern is that the entrepreneurs won't keep doubling down to get to a billion dollars once they have some reasonable fraction of the investor's personal net worth?It takes the arrogance of the very rich and highly dominant to complain that they're unable to keep their top employees poor enough to stay motivated.