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Actually, even if no one dies, we can still all have children without creating infinite population, as long as we have, on average, less than 2 per couple (1 pe
by lliiffee 16y ago
Actually, even if no one dies, we can still all have children without creating infinite population, as long as we have, on average, less than 2 per couple (1 per person).
For example, if we have 1 billion people who suddenly all become immortal, and each couple has, on average 1.8 children, we asymptote towards a world with 10 billion immortals. Everyone could have offspring, though the actual number of young people would be continuously decreasing...
If $p0$ is the starting population, and $a$ is the number of children per person (number per couple divided by two), we have
p = p0 * sum_{i=0...inf} a^i = p0 / (1-a)