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By exponential back-off, do you mean always doubling? To be nitpicky, the Fibonacci sequence also grows exponentially, with successive terms tending to the gol
by smallnamespace 4y ago
By exponential back-off, do you mean always doubling?
To be nitpicky, the Fibonacci sequence also grows exponentially, with successive terms tending to the golden ratio. You could equally well keep using exponential backoff, by replacing 2 with a smaller number (such as the golden ratio) instead.
- yawaramin 4y agoTrue, exponential backoff doesn't necessarily mean doubling, it's just the common understanding. Using Fibonacci explicitly gives me easy-to-use whole numbers.