On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:11:27 -0800, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> > wrote: > > >>"The growth pattern is: 0, 4, 8, 16, 25, 35, 46, 58, 72, 88, …" >> -- list_resize() >> > Rather perverse, is it not? The first set is plain doubling, but > then you get a series of increases by: > > ... 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 16,... > > or > > 100%, 100%, 100%, 56%, 40%, 34%, 30%, 27%, 22%,... > > Big jump form 100% to 56%...
Based on the formula in the code, it would seem to asymptotically approach 12.5%. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
