See Meindert? I told you dougies would be claiming that a square function is
asymptotic. even when dougies was handed the definition of the word you
_still_ can't figure out what it means and he _still_ tries to prove that a
concrete slab salesman selling to first-time single wide buyers is a genius at
math.

From: DSK
Date: 9/1/2004 8:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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Meindert Sprang wrote:
These figures are not realistic. Up to the point of the hull speed they
resemble reality, but as soon as the hull starts planing, more 'ordinary'
rules of resistance/drag apply and as far as I know the function becomes
more like a square root function, which is mathematically definately not an
asymptote.

Well, there's your mistake. A hull under planing conditions is subject
to normal drag, including air resistance. It no longer is subject to
wave-making resistance, but that doesn't mean that *all* resistance goes
away. And the function for increase is a multiple of velocity squared,
which will have an asymptote.

DSK