- Hard drives have been the secondary storage of choice on computers for many years. They have improved in speed, in capacity, and in cost for over 50 years. It's interesting to look at how the prices have dropped, or, conversely, how much storage your money will buy now as compared to many years ago. This improvement is an example of *Moore's Law* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law>
This site <http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte> was written by a person (in 2009) who had considered this amazing trend. He collected a lot of data about hard drive capacity and price. The formula he extrapolated by using the data he found is *cost per gigabyte = 10-0.2502(year-1980) + 6.304* where *year* is the year for which the extrapolated cost was desired. This formula is based on data from 1980 to 2010. Your program should develop a table of costs, based on the user's inputs of the starting and ending years and the formula. The table should produce columns as seen below, The column Year is the year, starting at the point the user says to start at, and going to the ending year, stopping there. The size of the step in the table is also specified by the user. The user inputs are all integers. Your program can assume that. *NOTE:* The "ending year, stopping there" phrase is a bit ambiguous. If you want to use the ending year as the stop value in a range function, that is fine. If you want to add one to the ending year and use that as the stop value, that is also ok. *In the tables below, end year plus one was used.* Tab characters can be used. *Sample Run:* Big Blue Hard Drive Storage Cost Enter the starting year: 1992 Enter the ending year: 2015 What step size for the table? 4 Hard Drive Storage Costs Table Start Year = 1992 End Year = 2015 Year Cost Per Gigabyte ($) 1992 2002.627 1996 199.894 2000 19.953 2004 1.992 2008 0.199 2012 0.02 *Another Run:* Big Blue Hard Drive Storage Cost Enter the starting year: 1998 Enter the ending year: 2010 What step size for the table? 2 Hard Drive Storage Costs Table Start Year = 1998 End Year = 2010 Year Cost Per Gigabyte ($) 1998 63.154 2000 19.953 2002 6.304 2004 1.992 2006 0.629 2008 0.199 2010 0.063 - QUESTION - Could someone help me with a design and a python program to implement that design to solve the above problem?
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