In fact, fitting any simple curve to the data does no better than the straight line.

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Saito, 45 has been working at the shipyard for 26 years, and time is required to learn the technique: five years to do a simple curve and another five to become really skillful.

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Some might be worried this is all too complicated, when all they want to do is sit back and watch fast cars, but the review says it's got a very simple learning curve.

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Dr. Arthur Laffer developed the Laffer Curve based on a simple premise: at 100% taxation any incentive for work or investment ceases, eliminating the ability to collect taxes.

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To do so, astronomers resort to Fourier analysis, a mathematical technique that allows them to break a complex curve into a set of simple ones called sine waves.

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But we have the steepest yield curve that we've had in the last 40 years, and yield curve steepness is an overly simple sense a predictor of future bank system eagerness to lend.

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Green Throttle is ahead of the curve in this department and providing a simple, affordable, and standardized solution.

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That simple act of bringing those people aboard created a learning curve that I value to this day.

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