Wait, under what circumstances are gravity and electrostatics NOT inverse-square?

…n’t the magnitude of the forces, or the nature of attraction/repulsion that I want you to consider, but rather the fact that — at long ranges — these are inverse-square forces, meaning that as you double the distance between two such objects, the force between them drops to …
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Wait, under what circumstances are gravity and electrostatics NOT inverse-square?
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