So here we have energy increasing on the y-axis, and you see this straight line at the bottom here is lower down on the graph, and that's the energy of a bound electron, so that's going to be a low stable energy.
Such rates of Greenland ice loss were barely larger than the margin of error in their readings, making it difficult to discern any difference between a supposed loss curve on a graph from a straight line.
Within five minutes, Markopolos sensed that the returns had to be fictional, and he became sure of it when he plotted on a graph the rising quarterly gains, year after year, and wound up with a virtually straight forty-five-degree angle.