Comments on: Moving Day! http://samjshah.com/2009/04/07/moving-day/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:10:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David P http://samjshah.com/2009/04/07/moving-day/#comment-898 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:55:36 +0000 http://samjshah.com/?p=1243#comment-898 Air conditioner logic/temperature. It blows at a certain level when it hits 78, then harder when it hits 80, etc. At least, that’s how I think it works?

Taxes are sort of like this (although more complicated). You could come up with a semi-artificial flat-tax that was tiered. Still money, I guess.

Power from your car is also tiered like that…when you change gears, it will jump. (There are TONS of charts on this called “dynos” that measure torque and horsepower based on RPMs for different gears.)

]]> By: samjshah http://samjshah.com/2009/04/07/moving-day/#comment-897 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:44:22 +0000 http://samjshah.com/?p=1243#comment-897 @Kate: Thanks! If you live in a city, taxis are piecewise in the same way (you pay by the 1/5 of a mile, or something, plus some initial fee like $2.50). I’ll try to think if I can come up with something that isn’t a price…

]]> By: Kate http://samjshah.com/2009/04/07/moving-day/#comment-896 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:34:54 +0000 http://samjshah.com/?p=1243#comment-896 Fantastic! Real life examples of step functions are hard to come by.

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