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by nwatson 5303 days ago
... whereas if your downloads per time month is a constant proportion of your total downloads to date, e.g., next month the downloads will total 2.5% of the total downloads to date ... and that keeps happening every month, then:

  * the per-month downloads will grow exponentially as you graph it over time
  * the cumulate number of downloads to any given date also will grow exponentially