----- Original Message ----- From: Kirby Urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, February 14, 2005 2:41 pm Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] Financial calculation
> > Though maybe my calculations need to be checked, in Python. > > > > And I still don't own any Apple. > > > > Art > > Why is it useful to take a sudden spike in a stock, use that to > derive an > annual growth rate of 500%, and plug that into a compound interest > formularunning out 10 years? Why is useful to repeat the story of the King and the grains of wheat and the chessboard? I assume you know my reference. Same reason, different era. > > By the same reasoning, finding a $100 bill on the sidewalk will > make me a > gazillionaire, so I should just quit all my jobs and retire. Only if you can find a why to compund it a 500% over some substanital time period. Else you just found $100. That used to buy a nice pair of shoes. > > Over on the Wittgenstein list, we call this "language idling" > (i.e. doing no > work). If you say so. Art > > Kirby > > > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
