. That's actually a poor example; I actually worked on a continuous-thruster orbit-raising model problem in grad school :)
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deleted for misuse of 'delta-v', but doubt your thruster had mixed symmetric + & - impulses, & + won via 'compound interest'
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Come to think of it, even thrust profile of conventional rockets is continuous/compounding. Look at eqns. It's not an explosion.
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not if + & - deltas mixed! it seemed you were suggesting compound interest benefits small + deltas over small - deltas…
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…definitely not if deltas are in absolute (rather than percentage) terms; but also: negatives compound too, and faster…
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But relative is the right way to think of it for any first order process (xdot = ax) until saturation hits.
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yes, just thought the cheeriness ("small positives outweigh small negatives!") hid measurement/distribution assumption dragons!
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I saw that lead-in context; was just dismissive capper ("…don't understand…") that prompted "remember alt less-relative perspectives!"
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Fair criticism. Didn't really think of default context of compound interest being stocks/money, shoulda qualified better.

