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: Medical scientists, insurance companies, biologists, and politicians are all interested in predicting the size of various populations, both animal and human. The simplest approximation assumes that the growth in size is always proportional to the current size. That can't happen because after a while there wouldn't be enough food, water, or space for the exponentially increasing number of individuals. So a more realistic model is built, perhaps by including a competing population, be it wolves or bacteria, with dynamics of its own, or by building in a factor like a declining birth rate. All such models use systems of equations that need integration at some point in their solutions.
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