Linux isnt even suppose to be even close to Unix. Linux is based off of Minix, a micro-kernel architectureâ¦ Minix and Unix are 2 completely different cores, as different as Windows and Mac OS X, Windows and Linux, and Mac and Linux. BSD is a different beast, based on Unix, Linux is based on Minix, OS X is based on BSD.
1 A geometric sequence is one in which the same number is multiplied or divided by each element to get the next element in the sequence. 2  2, 4, 8, 16, ... is a geometric sequence.
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: geometric progression (Noun). A sequence in which each term except the first is obtained from the previous by multiplying it by a constant value, known as the common ratio of the geometric progression.he sum of the terms of a geometric progression, or of an initial segment of a geometric progression, is known as a geometric series. Thus, the general form of a geometric sequence is and that of a geometric series is where r â  0 is the common ratio and a is a scale factor, equal to the sequence's start value.