On Sunday 27 November 2005 11:28, jerzy.karczmarczuk@info.unicaen.fr wrote:
Andrew Pimlott:
//about my highly spiritual essay on lazy computing of PI//:
In addition to being clever and terribly funny, the conclusion foreshadows (inspired?) later work on Enron [1].
Come on, it is improbable that Master Simon ever read my essay...
No,... no comparison. His work on contracts and the usage of FP for this funny branch of math which serves to generate (and to destroy...) *real* money, is based on a very serious formal research.
Hmm, do you mean the 'real' money that gets destroyed (for instance) every time a loan is payed back? (like in: bank assets minus outstanding loan; bank liabilities minus amount payed back from checking account (= M1 money).) These are the wonders of double entry bookkeeping... 'real' money gone with the push of a button... ;) Cheers, Ben