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Hurry is one word that epitomizes Bangalore. The transformation from a sleepy pensioner’s paradise to becoming the bustling IT capital of India is one thing that might have annoyed the older residents but also greatly pleased economists and anthropologists alike. Both of them being observational sciences, such a large laboratory, where the aforementioned “Hurry” element expedites the effects would have them drooling over then desktops.

One such pattern is what I now christen the “Chicken Biriyani Dating Method” (Dating as in “Carbon ‘dating’” and not “Opposite Sex Dating”. For prospective ‘OS daters’, who are searching around for sharpening their restaurant ordering skills, this would be the time to go else where. And anyway a chicken Biriyani after which your breath smells worse than a dragon would be the wrong choice, more so with the veggie fad going on.) Coming back to Our Chicken Biriyani Dating method (henceforth CBDM), it tries to derive an empirical relationship between the pricing cycle of a restaurant (Non-Veg obviously) and the percentage composition of meat in the Chicken Biriyani.

Some basic assumptions of the study is that

1. Inflation is always positive
2. Bangalore traders are greedy like hell
3. People in Bangalore are seemly unaffected in their enthusiasm to gorge down Chicken Biriyani irrespective of the cost.

The cycle can be explained in these simple steps.

1. Start New Restaurant ( or enter loop in existing restaurant)
2. Provide Chicken Biriyani B at Rs.X
3. Set Z% as Meat Threshold and start with Y% meat in it. Such that Z<Y
4. Is Y<=Z? If Yes GoTo 8 Step If No Continue
5. Wait A days
6. Y = B*Y (where B is the meat multiplication constant such than B<1)
7. GoTo 4
8. X=X*C ( C is the price multiplication factor with always C>1)
9. GoTo 4
10. Stop (Only thru interrupt)

Interrupt condition: Consumers Grow wise/crazy and trash the restaurant.
Note on constants: A, B and C are normally constant but are largely influenced by Temperature, Humidity and Customer Sentiment

Dating Formula

By knowing Initial and final values of X Y and Z and assuming appropriate values for constants , the growth of the restaurant can be plotted.

The author wishes to acknowledge the unique opportunity that Bangalore provided as the price cycles repeated them selves 5-10 times in the 2 years of study

I was finally able to update A Sneak Peek Into The Wonderful World Of Voltage Regulator with all the images that were so conspicuously absent from it.

The popularity of this post ( most hits than any other post I think) can probably be put down to abundance of technical terms like 317 and 78XX in the article which are Googl’ed everyday.

The post was originally taken from my old website and I had lost all my images during that transition. Recently I was able to recover these images from my old hard-drive and do justice to the post