<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Adrian wrote: What do I do with my
take? Make life more awesome for many, possibly most, people
permanently (or as close to permanent as we get these days).</div>----------------------------------<br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Now this is a great topic. I sometimes daydream about having a billion dollars, or ten billion or something, and plan what to do with it. Surely some of you have the same daydream.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So - just what <u><i>would you do </i></u>with some large amount of money Let's say 10 billion.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">As Jesus said, the poor are always with us, so I will aim for some elites. (Although I have read a while back that one could supply clean water to everyone in the world for 10 billion, which I have to sincerely doubt. If true, that's what I would do.)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">My money goes to establishing a college for musical and math (not necessarily both) prodigies, age unlimited. Free tuition. Room and board provided for the needy. Highly paid profs. Alums provide funding when money runs out - hopefully.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Well, OK, a couple of million just for me and my toys.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">How about you? bill w<br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 5:19 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br><b><span style="color:#1f497d">…</span></b></span><u></u><u></u></p></span><div><div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">When I run it, I get a maximum of 333333333 pennies ($3,333,333.33) with an average expected payout of 166666666.5 pennies ($1,666,666.665)<span style="color:#1f497d">… Adrian</span> <span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">To clean it up a bit, assume integer number of dollars and zero is not a possibility.</span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Changes the answer to $3,333,333.34.<br></div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I also got your result from my sim: your optimal bid is 3,333,333 and your expected winnings are 1,666,667 bucks and that greedy Mr. Potter’s take is twice that, curse the bastard.</span> <br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></span></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The best revenge is a life lived well. What does he do with his take? Make a few peoples' lives miserable temporarily. What do I do with my take? Make life more awesome for many, possibly most, people permanently (or as close to permanent as we get these days).<br></div></div>
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