On Sunday 27 November 2005 11:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe