Re: Re: Only 14 gear ratios? Primitive!

On 12/5/2024 4:33 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Wed Dec 4 23:40:18 2024 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

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We all know how incredibly stupid you are but https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/ shows the actual inflation rates during Obama, Trump and Biden.

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and as usual, you post a link that disproves your own claim
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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Ave
2009 0.0 0.2 -0.4 -0.7 -1.3 -1.4 -2.1 -1.5 -1.3 -0.2 1.8 2.7
-0.4
2010 2.6 2.1 2.3 2.2 2.0 1.1 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.1 1.5 1.6
2011 1.6 2.1 2.7 3.2 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.8 3.9 3.5 3.4 3.0 3.2
2012 2.9 2.9 2.7 2.3 1.7 1.7 1.4 1.7 2.0 2.2 1.8 1.7 2.1
2013 1.6 2.0 1.5 1.1 1.4 1.8 2.0 1.5 1.2 1.0 1.2 1.5 1.5
2014 1.6 1.1 1.5 2.0 2.1 2.1 2.0 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.3 0.8 1.6
2015 -0.1 0.0 -0.1 -0.2 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.7 0.1
2016 1.4 1.0 0.9 1.1 1.0 1.0 0.8 1.1 1.5 1.6 1.7 2.1 1.3
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Care to point out anywhere in those 8 years that would have driven the
average to 25%
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Perhaps you'd like to let us know why you do not understand that average inflation values are not additive but multiplicative?

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Oh good grief! No, Tom, you're math is wrong.
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Pick any row. Do the cumulative multiplication for the twelve months,
that you seem to be claiming is appropriate.
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Then tell us how it generates the number in the last column - the one
labeled "Ave" for "Average."
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Or even simpler, note all the rows have values that are higher than the
"Ave" listing.
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You're looking like an ignorant fool yet again; this time, with simple
math.

  Frank again shows why he was fired as a plant engineer. He doesn't understand basic mathematics.
 That chart shows the AVERAGE inflation value for the previous YEAR. Since the BUDGET was set by the PREVIOUS Congress, the inflations goes for Obama from 2010 to 2017.
 Moreover the average inflation rate from 2010 is increased OVER the inflation rate of the following year.

If you wanted to talk about the cumulative inflation during Obama's terms, you should have used the word "cumulative."
And even if you did, your claim of 25% [cumulative] inflation was off by nearly a factor of two. Do the numbers, Tom. They work out to about 14%.
Here's an interesting coincidence: If you run the numbers for cumulative inflation under G.W.Bush, immediately before Obama, you _do_ find a cumulative value nearly twice as large as Obama's! (I get 24.4%.)
Oddly, Tom doesn't complain about the W.Bush years.
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- Frank Krygowski