Date:         Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:53:16 -0700
Reply-To:     "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Fw: A Mathematical Proof
Comments: To: Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
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At 11:11 AM 7/25/2001 -0400, Gerhard Hellriegel wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:55:16 -0700, Jan Padilla
><jan.padilla@MINDSPRING.COM> wrote:
>
> >http://www.EmailJoke.comThis must relate in some way to the "the power to
> >know"!  Any mathematicians with too much time on their hands monitoring
>this
> >list?
> >
> >
> >Knowledge is Power.
> >Time is Money
> >And, as every actuary (with physics training) knows:
> >Power = Work/Time
> >So, if
> >Knowledge = Power
> >and
> >Time = Money
> >then through simple substitution
> >Knowledge = Work/Money
> >Solving for Money, we get
> >Money = Work/Knowledge
> >Thus, if Work is held constant as a positive number (no matter how
>small!!),
> >Money approaches infinity as Knowledge approaches zero
> >Conclusion: All else being equal, the less you know, the more you make.
>
>My experience is: line 2 is wrong! I assume, time=1/money. Always if I have
>time, my money disappear! I have only money when I have no time to spend
>it...


Interesting twist .. but this reminds me of a line from Zap Comics' (in the
70's) Mr. Natural ....

... <blank> will get you through times of no money better than money will
get you through times of no <blank>

Later


>But the conclusion is also interesting:
>doesn't matter how big your knowledge is (only >0)! You can always have
>enough money if you avoid working too much... Ok, I'll finish my work for
>today now!

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