<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1515" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=monacojerry@gmail.com href="mailto:monacojerry@gmail.com">Jerry Monaco</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><BR>But why must the long wave of inflation look like something as geometrically simple as a catenary? </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT size=3>y = a cosh(x/a)</FONT><FONT size=4> </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Because Jerry, a catenary arch distributes the entire load into the ground.  Thus it does not rely on a buttress or external frame.  Elegant and practical if you are building kilns and domes.  So why not use it for predicting inflation?  Or IQ's for that matter :).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=3> </FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>tfast</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>