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A man jumps off a 20 story building. As he passes an open window on the 6th floor, people on the floor hear him exclaim "so far, so good!".

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You might get lucky like the guy in the Hudsucker Proxy!

Spoiler warning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P52eqNKCpYc

I don't get it

The measure of success as a function of how far you've fallen is basically constant throughout and then suddenly changes to 0 (or -inf, or whatever).

Maybe the Heaviside step function would be fitting :-)

It's more like the delta function/"function" restricted to the nonnegative reals.

I suppose it's a quote from La Haine (1995) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/

> Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land!

"Jusqu'ici tout va bien"

It sounds so nice in French.

Amazing film, by the way.

I remember hearing it from Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven when I was a kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7GP3l5znc8

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