{"id":13,"date":"2008-07-16T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T19:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-07-16T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T19:49:47","slug":"more-on-rate-finding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/more-on-rate-finding\/","title":{"rendered":"More on rate-finding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In responding to a question in blog comments about rate-finding, I noticed that the calculator didn&#8217;t behave well if the <b>Payment Amount<\/b> could not pay off the loan after the <b>Number of Regular Payments<\/b> had elapsed, no matter how low the interest rate.  To fix this, I added a test for the condition and have the calculator write an error message if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little surprising to still find bugs of this magnitude after all these years. \ud83d\ude42  But hey, they&#8217;re still getting fixed, one by one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In responding to a question in blog comments about rate-finding, I noticed that the calculator didn&#8217;t behave well if the Payment Amount could not pay off the loan after the Number of Regular Payments had elapsed, no matter how low the interest rate. To fix this, I added a test for the condition and have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/more-on-rate-finding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More on rate-finding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amortization-calculator"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}