Equation 2 · Part 3 · Seventy-Five Thousand Generations of E. coli, and Counting
addition
addition
What this part means
Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.
Its job in the formula
Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.
Full expression→addition→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
which approaches a fixed value of 1 + a/b as t grows without bound, and
Learn the underlying idea
Addition combines quantities; subtraction measures the signed difference between them. Parentheses show what is combined before the rest of the expression is evaluated.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [3] Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli ↗
- [14] They're back! ↗
- [2] Long-Term Dynamics of Adaptation in Asexual Populations ↗
- [13] The E. Coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment Is The Longest-Running Study Of Its Kind, And It's Been Going For 80,000 Generations ↗
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