[Haskell-cafe] Detecting Cycles in Datastructures

[Benjamin Franksen]

On Sunday 27 November 2005 11:28, jerzy.karczmarczuk at info.unicaen.fr 
wrote:
> Andrew Pimlott:
>
> //about my highly spiritual essay on lazy computing of PI//:
> > In addition to being clever and terribly funny, the conclusion
> > foreshadows (inspired?) later work on Enron [1].
>
> Come on, it is improbable that Master Simon ever read my essay...
>
> No,... no comparison.
> His work on contracts and the usage of FP for this funny branch of
> math which serves to generate (and to destroy...) *real* money, is
> based on a very serious formal research.

Hmm, do you mean the 'real' money that gets destroyed (for instance) 
every time a loan is payed back? (like in: bank assets minus 
outstanding loan; bank liabilities minus amount payed back from 
checking account (= M1 money).) These are the wonders of double entry 
bookkeeping... 'real' money gone with the push of a button... ;)

Cheers,
Ben