On Thu, July 7, 2011 12:49, Chris Partridge said:
>> On 07 July 2011 17:31, doug foxvog said
>> On Thu, July 7, 2011 11:21, David Eddy said:
>> > ...
>> > Personally I vacillate between describing financial "products" as
>> > either "non-dimensional" or "N-dimensional." (01)
>> They have zero spatial dimensions, but a multitude of other dimensions
> (i.e., properties). (02)
> Is this true?
> Is the idea that financial "products" have no spatial dimensions but some
> temporal dimensions? E.g. A Security trade that has a trade date, value
> date and settlement date (and actual delivery date) -
> so it plainly has some temporal dimensions. (03)
Agreed. (04)
> I have always assumed that these financial products were a process which
> involved the dealers making the trade, the back office arranging the
> settlement, etc. - and this certainly has a spatial dimension. (05)
I see financial products as being created by a process, but being distinct
from the process that created them. (06)
-- doug f (07)
>> > In any case these
>> > products are stuff that cannot be put on a scale & weighted or have a
>> > caliper applied to them. It's just information which as far as I know
>> > we have no idea how to measure other than silly things like "lines of
>> > code." (08)
>> A possible "measurement" could be monetary value. But most properties
>> would not be measured ones. (09)
>> -- doug f
>>
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