The purpose of this note is to share some observations and speculations concerning the asymptotic behavior of Gromov-Witten invariants and of some recursively defined sequences. The speculations concerning the former may be indicative of some deep phenomena in symplectic topology that are outside of the reach of current techniques. The speculations concerning the latter appear in the style of s...

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