Equation 4 · Part 2 · Seventy-Five Thousand Generations of E. coli, and Counting
Symbol t
What this part means
t is an argument of the function-like quantity on the left; its role is set by that function’s stated inputs.
Its job in the formula
t is an argument of the function-like quantity on the left; its role is set by that function’s stated inputs.
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The passage around this formula
which approaches a fixed value of 1 + a/b as t grows without bound, and . for an exponent between 0 and 1, which keeps rising — more and more slowly, but without any asymptote — for every value of t . Wiser and colleagues derived the second form theoretically from a model combining clonal interference with…
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