Micropayments, redux

[R. A. Hettinga]

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..."
:-)
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experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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