Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Frank Krygowski Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: RE: Re: Re: Only 14 gear ratios? Primitive! Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:36:12 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <7Z04P.6692$BgR1.2025@fx08.iad> Reply-To: frkrygow@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:36:15 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0b8dec3fc505072de8c678cfc91d3cb6"; logging-data="3317213"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19uixzxhqqxVOkFvm6hOty9tw5Nhxnzj9I=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:616jrFg3xzI2Dhjd9iUvjGov+4Q= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2580 On 1/25/2025 3:45 PM, cyclintom wrote: > On Thu Dec 5 20:22:37 2024 Frank Krygowski wrote: >> >> 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. > > Krygowski, on a good day you're a fool. As usual, Tom gets blown out of the water by mathematics so he descends into insults. Your math was totally wrong. Admit it and shut up. -- - Frank Krygowski