{"id":7,"date":"2008-07-11T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-07-11T17:36:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T21:36:38","slug":"negative-amortization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/negative-amortization\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Amortization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added a new entry to the <a href=\"\/amortization\/amortfaq.html\">FAQ<\/a> regarding negative amortizations.  In the process, I also noticed that some of the summary information produced by the calculator and final schedule row are not completely consistent in the NegAm scenario.  I will need to fix these.  It is apparent that I missed some sort of symmetry in my calculations here (I probably took a shortcut to minimize computer time, which is just so much gagging at gnats these days).<\/p>\n<p>This is interesting to me because I&#8217;ve recently been reading some of the Richard Feynman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-Richard-Phillips\/dp\/0201021153\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1215795093&amp;sr=8-4\">Lectures on Physics<\/a>, and he talks a bit about mathematical symmetries.  We have such an expectation of symmetry that lack of it in certain contexts may indicate a flaw in our understanding, or sometimes it may lead to the discovery of even more interesting properties.  (Amortization is not so glamorous as a fundamental law of the universe, mind you; but I now recognize that had I paid closer attention to a mathematical symmetry in this case, I might have noticed my error sooner.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added a new entry to the FAQ regarding negative amortizations. In the process, I also noticed that some of the summary information produced by the calculator and final schedule row are not completely consistent in the NegAm scenario. I will need to fix these. It is apparent that I missed some sort of symmetry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/negative-amortization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Negative Amortization&#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-7","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\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}