“Exponential growth has befuddled human intuition for centuries.  One of the earliest descriptions of the confusion it engendered was described in the Shahnameh, an epic poem by the Persian poet Ferdowski [sic] at around 1000 CE” in the story of the invention of the game of chess…

~ quote by Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Howard Wainer in his 2016 book “Truth or Truthiness”…

[pic source panoramio @David Collection:  A copy of a 16th c. edition of the SHAHNAMEH in Persian language ... a nation that is overtaken by non-patriotic, ideologue or globalists such as Islamo-Marxist mullahs in Iran is doomed… for educational purposes only]