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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:15:30 +0000

To: Bear

From: Frki

Subject: Re: crispify

At 22:55 05/07/01 +0100, you wrote:

Fergal,
Could we make last weekend's fuzzy set X crisp? My bank won't
accept a function as the transfer amount, erroring over an ill-defined
join operation or something., Blasted co-norms. Whatever they are.

Ah, you need to change bank. I've been with the Indeterminate Bank ("the bank that likes to say 'maybe'") for a couple of years now. I gave them an unspecified deposit with an associated probability when I opened the account, they pay me not firm interest like other banks but in expectation, based on the normalized integral of their possible interest rates. Meanwhile they've invested my money-potential in futures and options, which gives them a solid reliable meta-income stream. All my monthly statements are recursive and have to be printed on fractional dimension paper which is nice 'cos it's got a lovely crinkly feel. They don't have any branches but are quick to respond to emails and their website is a pleasant grey-blue colour. UCL weren't slow to realise the tax breaks paying me directly to the bank entail, I now get paid in increased probabilities rather than actual amounts: I am asymptotically approaching the certainty of a modest fortune. Sadly the IRS have caught onto this and from next year will start invoicing me with a cumulative annual probability that they will come into my house and take away all my things.



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