colonel@gloria.UUCP (05/01/84)
[Penalty for early withdrawal] The story about the man who willed $1 to his fiftieth-generation heir was in Fadiman's earlier anthology, _Fantasia Mathematica_. I wonder what economists would think of that story. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel
lmc@denelcor.UUCP (05/10/84)
"$100 placed at 7% interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to over $100,000,000 - by which time it will be worth nothing." -Lazarus Long -- Lyle McElhaney (hao,brl-bmd,nbires,csu-cs,scgvaxd)!denelcor!lmc