Chuck Smith wrote:
Hey, I was just thinking today about how quickly we're writing new articles and I was wondering if anyone (looks around for mathematicians/statisticians) could calculate the exponential curve for the growth of wikipedia and based on that try to guesstimate travelling at the same exponential speed when we will hit the 100,000 article mark. There's your math homework for the day, brought to you by Wikipedia.
With some imperfect data I got the equation:
Articles=1.6*Days^1.6077
Days=Days after January 15 2000.
That means we will have 100 000 articles in August 2003.