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Vocabulary

At an exponentially increasing remove

"The paradigmatic idea was that society under the prophet Muhammad had attained a perfection from which later generations were condemned to live at an exponentially increasing remove." (Christopher de Bellaigue.)

What does the PP at an exponentially increasing remove mean in the above sentence?
  

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Later generations were condemned to live at an exponentially increasing remove (= distance) from that perfect society. "exponentially increasing" literally means that each year (or other time period) the distance increases by the same factor. Here it is not meant in a completely literal mathematical sense since the thing measured cannot be exactly quantified.

— GPY

  • Later generations were condemned to live at an exponentially increasing remove (= distance) from that perfect society.
  • "exponentially increasing" literally means that each year (or other time period) the distance increases by the same factor.
  • Here it is not meant in a completely literal mathematical sense since the thing measured cannot be exactly quantified.
  • Instead it just means (probably) that the distance increases at an ever faster rate.
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Later generations were condemned to live at an exponentially increasing remove (= distance) from that perfect society.

"exponentially increasing" literally means that each year (or other time period) the distance increases by the same factor. Here it is not meant in a completely literal mathematical sense since the thing measured cannot be exactly quantified. Instead it just means (probab
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