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Re:In what areas are the massive fortunes of the future goin... by Neslit on Sunday September 22, 2013 @09:58PM (#6428842)
There is an increasing interest in life extension, so I think we'll also see wide demand for an interim solution to the whole death thing. E.g. brain plastination, cryonics, sufficiently detailed brain scans... whoever makes one of these scalable and effective at preserving a person (information-theoretically) will rake in like $O(10^9).
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Re:In what areas are the massive fortunes of the future goin... by stcredzero on Monday September 23, 2013 @01:01AM (#6429222)
Big O notation with a constant amount? If so, that's the same as O(1) or is that another notation I'm not familiar with?
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Re:In what areas are the massive fortunes of the future goin... by Neslit on Monday September 23, 2013 @02:05AM (#6429366)
Ah sorry... I was just being sloppy, what I wrote doesn't make sense. What I meant was "order of magnitude", but I'm not sure how to write that; Big Theta says two functions grow within a constant factor of each other, which is vaguely similar to the notion of order of magnitude. Maybe it should have been "$~10^9$" or just "$10^9$".

(By the way, my reasoning was 10^4 for current cryonics prices, times 10^7 or 10^8 people, times 10^-2 or 10^-3 assuming a fee of 1% to 0.1%.)

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