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Subject: Author Enquiries
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Date: Wed, 25-Apr-84 13:19:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 25 13:19:00 1984
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From:  Craig W. Reynolds <cwr at WHITE>

    Date: Tue 24 Apr 84 19:04:07-EST
    From: FIRTH%TARTAN@CMU-CS-C.ARPA
    Subject: Author Enquiries

    ... The story about the man who invested enough money in the past to
    pay for his trip back there is "Compounded Interest" by Mack Reynolds.

    Most of us as schoolboys calculated the value of "Caesar's penny",
    invested on his visit in 55 BC an some trivial rate of compound
    interest.  However, the seminal story is of course H G Wells' When
    The Sleeper Wakes.

Who is the author of "John Jones' Dollar"?  This is basically the same
story (one US dollar invested at 3% (its an old story) held in a trust
for the his first decendant of the fiftieth generation).  The story is
set during a history lecture (in a distributed, video linked class).
The twist is that the story is not about finances but rather the pol-
itical structure of their society and how it came about.

- Craig (no relation to Jack) Reynolds