At 6:23 PM -0600 on 12/16/02, Matt Crawford wrote:
> These quibbles may be of interest only to mathematicians and insurers. ...and thus underwriters of the financial instruments in question? :-). Cheers, RAH "That's why they call it *financial* crypto, boys and girls..." "...Though the accountants *do* have this thing called 'materiality'..." "...Right, and that's also why some people say that finance is accounting with real math. Okay, mathematical economics..." :-) -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]