Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fisher.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!david From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: how to eliminate the federal deficit :-) Message-ID: <281@fisher.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Aug-84 08:14:09 EDT Article-I.D.: fisher.281 Posted: Sun Aug 19 08:14:09 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Aug-84 01:36:48 EDT References: <40500033@convex.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Statistics Lines: 9 If we divvy it up proportionately, each department has the incentive to inflate its request to assure a larger percentage of the "take". We run into severe mathematical problems when all departments realize how the game is to be played, and all request infinite resource. Then all those fractions in the formulas are undefined... David Rubin {allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david