Going Dutch Going Dutch "Going Dutch" (sometimes written with lower-case dutch) is a term that indicates that each person participating in a paid activity covers their own expenses, rather than any one person in the group defraying the cost for the entire group. The term stems from restaurant dining etiquette in the Western world where each person pays for their meal. It is also called Dutch date, Dutch treat (the oldest form, a pejorative) and doing Dutch. There are two possible senses—each person paying their own expenses, or the entire bill being split (divided evenly) between all participants. In strict usage, "Going
Population ecology in a population can be described as: where "N" is the total number of individuals in the population, "B" is the raw number of births, "D" is the raw number of deaths, "b" and "d" are the per capita rates of birth and death respectively, and "r" is the per capita average number of surviving offspring each individual has. This formula can be read as the rate of change in the population ("dN/dT") is equal to births minus deaths (B - D). Using these techniques, Malthus' population principle of growth was later transformed into a mathematical model known as the