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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cubenewb, post: 1074997, member: 25644&quot;]I&#039;m not so sure you understand what I said. Affixing &quot;potential&quot; to your estimation that the &quot;lower your bill the greater the penalty&quot; does not in anyway rationalize that statement.</p><p>&nbsp;I do realize that you took this &#039;penalty&#039; and made it a percentage of the total bill, of which I said:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Consider the penalty as X. Consider the total bill (with sales Tax) as Y. You are saying</p><p><br /></p><p>[(X)/(Y) ]*100 = Penalty Percentage</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m trying to say that this &quot;penalty percentage&quot; is extremely misleading, based on the following facts:</p><p>0&lt;x&lt;1</p><p>Y --&gt; Infinity</p><p><br /></p><p>So you&#039;re basically asserting that dividing a number that is in some senses finite (because it is bounded by 0 and 1) by a number that gets large without bound yields a lower penalty. Hobo, this is as simple as saying:</p><p><br /></p><p>1/(Something that&#039;s getting bigger) = Something that&#039;s getting smaller</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I just don&#039;t think that&#039;s the best way to demonstrate what&#039;s going on here; by attaching an ever-increasing value to the relatively fixed penalty rate, you are essentially muddling the significance of the cycle itself. As the bill goes up, this &quot;penalty percentage&quot; that you created does indeed go down, but that&#039;s only because the penalty percentage involves dividing by the very number that is getting larger!</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to your original statement: &quot;the lower your bill the greater the penalty, potentially&quot; ; if by penalty you mean your &#039;penalty percentage&#039; then yes, you are indeed correct! However, I think using that as an indicator of the &#039;penalty&#039; might be right only in your own mind (after all, you are a legend there <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope you see where I&#039;m coming from; I see what you are saying but I do not think that is the way you should go about it. Can you see what I&#039;m trying to say?</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. The equations I set up are merely a way I can articulate what I believe you are saying. I am not lecturing you there, just trying to demonstrate my contentions more clearly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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