Money Definition and 279 Threads

I'm looking at housing options. I'm thinking, while I can afford to get a nice place, I could save around 20-30% on rent by getting a not so nice place. Even a not so nice place would still be better than any of the rooms I had during school. I'm just mulling this over and considering how...

Homework Statement A country uses as currency coins with values of 1 peso, 2 pesos, 5 pesos, and 10 pesos and bills with values of 5 pesos, 10 pesos, 20 pesos, 50 pesos, and 100 pesos. Find a recurrence relation for the number of ways to pay a bill of n pesos if the order in which the coins...

A recent college student borrowed $100,000 at an interest rate of 9%. With salary increases, he expects to make payments at a monthly rate of 800*(1+t/120), where t is number of months since the loan was made. (a.) Assuming that this payment schedule can be maintained, when will the loan be...

If we didn't have money we would spend lots of time bartering deciding if a sewing machine is worth a loaf of bread plus a bottle of tomato ketchup etc. From a scientists point of view doesn't money stop us from wasting time and effort (expending energy) and from arguing/fighting one...

Peter Unger has argued that every single dollar you do not spend on anything but the absolute essentials of our survival is a dollar that has some starving child's blood on it. What are your opinions on this statement?

i don't know what i should study at university. I am looking for a filed that will have a future and you can find a job easier by having a degree in that subject. something that will be money making. and when you want to immegrate to a foreign conuntry you'll have a better chance to get a visa...

Is it worth it, one seems to miss out on everything, ok i get paid buckets of money, but i never have time to spend it, but then i am almost my own boss and do not have to put up with the day to day triva, just the c--p that the day shift leaves me with, stuff that they say they had no time to...

So I'm finally at a university and I'm being exposed to so many interesting things that I feel like I want to take so many classes before moving on to grad school. The annoying thing is that I basically have no money. I'm able to attend because of federal grants and student loans. I don't know...

I know people may reply saying that it's not to do with money and it's for enjoyment, your interests and blah blah blah but as I'm at an early stage of my life, just about to start a-levels, should I not aim for something a little more profitable like medicine for example. I've always been...

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I have come to the realisation that most students seem to keen up so much when a piece of work is going to be marked and counted towards their final grade (compared to when the work is not assessable). It draws a very close resemblance to people keening up when doing a job that they are paid to...

The RNC has been using e mail domain names that distance them from the Whitehouse e mail system. This Rovian trick may be illegal. http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/03/29/attorney_firings/

Anyone really good with RSA encryption/decryption? If you are, try http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2093" . Just remember to split half the money with me if you win.:biggrin:

Given that I already know where my interests and talents lie, how do I track where the money is going for physics grads as far as the branch of study. This will be a determining factor in my choice of grad school. My interests lie in Bose-Einstein Condensates (mostly their interaction with...

I plan on going into engineering, and i won't chose a field just because it pays the most. BUt i am still curious. In general, what are the highest paying fields in engineering? I know it can fluctuate time to time, but just in general, which ones pay really high? thanks

Say you wanted to realize the greatest gain in wealth using past economic information, starting at a past investment date of your choosing. What is the most profit (e.g., in terms of GNP percentage) you could actualize before this historical data becomes unreliable (when return becomes...

I'm just curious how many people here have had the "money talk" with their wife. Last night after my monthly enema, I mean bank/credit card bill reconciliation, I noticed that the derivative of my debt function seems to have a never ending positive slope. I looked at my paystub then looked at...

When you go to the checkout, after collecting all the groceries, the money (and the amount of money) transferred serves as a green light. You are then allowed to leave the store legally with the groceries. If it is not enough money it's the red light. If its "I left my wallet at home" it's a...

My documentary--how many $$$ have been invested in ST & LQG? As part of my documentary I am looking at how many $$$ have been invested in ST & LQG. Does anyone have any ballpark figures? How much total has been invested in ST? How much total has been invested in LQG? Where can I find this...

or maybe the title should be "Too much of a good thing"? Unemployment, the new Saudi challenge http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5406328.stm The country earns $480 million/day, and it still has problems. :bugeye: Now there is an opportunity for someone, assuming that the Saudi...

This is a serious query. and arguably dicey content. No, I'm not a pervert, just a man out-of-touch with a generation. The teenaged and early-20s girls these days don't look like they did when I was a lad. A high percentage of girls these days seem to have extraordinary lucky genes - they...

Ok, every time after i use my bed i make it, three times this week i have found money on it when i next go to use it, now i am the only one that lives here so i must be putting this money between 30 and 40p on the bed, but for the life of me i can not remember doing it, i must be leaving...

I was wondering about this and haven't had the chance to look into it. Who is getting the money from the Iraqi oil sold? They are supposed to be at ~50% of pre-war production levels. And who is monitoring oil production and sales?

Do they use real money in movies and on tv? For example, I'm watching Curb your enthusiasm and Larry is doing some part for this movie and he's slapping people with money and tossing money around and they're on top of a skyscraper. What I'm wondering is, do they use real money? If they are...

About 4 hours ago I got a phone call asking me if I wanted to go to the casino. I said sure, if they drove. I've been waiting for the past four hours for them to get here. They just called and are on their way. I'm only taking $100. How long til I lose it all? I'll let you know when I get back...

Thinking of ways to save money i thought i would do my clothes washing on my bath night, so i have a bath, then use the same water with washing powder added, then use the stomp method, like grape squashing, to get my togs clean, aftere about 10 minutes stomping, i give them a another good...

...does that make you unethical or not?

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How much money do you need to be satisfied? A thousand? Million? Billion? I've been thinking about all the super rich people in the world that are still making billions of dollars, why do they keep going? Don't they have enough money? Are they saving up to buy a small country or something? So...

Does anyone know the easiest way to have someone send money, using a credit card, to a bank account over the internet?

"where there is muck there is money" Well the one that states, "where there is muck there is money", is untrue, i had a trailer load of the best horse stuff delivered, and i didn't find a single groat, well the vendor had £20 so i suppose it worked for him.

Where does Google get its money from?

My time at PF is very limited right now, in fact I shouldn't even be here now so I will just throw this out for your consideration. I thought that it might be interesting to see who funds what. Be it a politician, agendas, movements, causes, action committees, re-election committees, the...

As I said in a couple threads before I really want to go into politics later in life. I honestly am satisfied with the money that is said physicist make but if I want to have a successful career in politics many sites and people say I need money. But I have a strong love for science...

As we all know textbooks are very, very, very, (you get the picture) expensive and the bad thing about it is that no matter how good the condition of the book is, when you try to sell it back you don't get anything considerable for it. Here is what I did. I needed the general chemistry book...

Looking at Basic Principles and Calculations of Chemical Engineering. 7th ED printed 2003, 6th ED printed 1996. Have "Basic Principals" changed a lot since then? If I can save a ridiculous sum of money would it be wise to get the older edition or is this going to leave out things of importance...

Do you think women earning more than their husbands/partners puts strain in a relationship? How does one handle it? Sunayana

http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=10258 Interesting piece on Matthew Lesko, the annoying guy who can be seen in his infomercials running around in question mark speckled suits in Washington DC, chasing professional looking suits with his big books on how to get free money from the...

hey guys. i am currently a college student, and i am doing very well in my applied math and eco double major. anyway, over the last few weeks, i have been pondering a lot of aspects of my life. and one of the issues that came up was, do i go for money or enjoyment? i am studying applied...

Would it be impossible to bring a cashless society i.e. if you want to buy anything minor even like a hair pin(most places insist on a certain minimum amount before u can use ur credit card) or something as big as a 40 acre estate(there is a limit on the money u can spend using ur credit card)...

http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/OakIsland/ This has been absolutely fascinating to me ever since I heard about it. It really astounds me to see the legnths that someone has gone to in order to protect whatever lies at the bottom of this pit. The engineering is quite astounding...

If the world's supply of money was divided equally amongst all people, how much money would each person have? Does anyone know the answer?

I am no financial expert, but I keep hearing talk of inflation. Usually I would not care, but since I plan on taking advantage of the government, I thought I should look into it. So here is the scenario. I will be receiving as much as possible of $17,500 over the next two years in...

I received a notice today that after a two-year dispute, the city owes me a refund of $2.63 in sales tax. I realize this is just my share of what is owed to all citizens of the city, and I understand the need for accountability, but I wonder how much the two-year dispute cost the residents of...

I'm deciding what to do with my life. I'm 17, a senior in high school. I graduate in 2006. I was wondering how much money physicist makes. Is there an actual job where you are a "physist"? Or are there other jobs where you use physics, and apply physics to figure out problems? There are a few...

So, i got back from vacation today, and my mum helped me bring some stuff up to my room. Hugs, kisses, blah blah, and she slips me a 20. I pocket it. Then I'm sitting at the computer in my room, and I'm like, "hmm, you know, I'm so forgetful, i'd better not leave this 20 in my pocket, elsewise...

Can someone explain to me how does Google make so much money? As far as I can see everything is free on their website.

The population is increasing but the sum total of money remains the same. Is it inevitable that there will be more people than the limited amount of currency can supply for?

My parents are pressuring me to become a medical doctor but I don't really want to. I mean, I rather become a medical doctor more than a lawyer or business man but I still rather be a scientist, to be more particular a Theoretical Physicist. I am very interested in Time Travel, wormholes, and...

I don't know where to begin with this question... could some give me a few pointers? I'd appreciate it. Bank pays 5% simple interest on money deposited, the credit union pays 4% with an added bonus of 25$ if the money stays in the account for a year: 1) if x represents the amt of $...