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Try My New Actuarial Calculator
| November 18th, 2010 at 8:20:33 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 14, 2009 Threads: 313 Posts: 6784 | Please give my new actuarial calculator a try. Sorry for its simplicity, but my JavaScript ability does not get very deep. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. It's not whether you win or lose; it's whether or not you had a good bet. |
| November 18th, 2010 at 9:36:33 PM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Nov 22, 2009 Threads: 10 Posts: 337 | Certainly is easy to use. Since it is your area of expertise I trust the accuracy. Is this something you are going to leave available at one of the sites? As allways Wiz you provide so much easily available information. "Computers are useless they only give answers" Picasso |
| November 19th, 2010 at 1:49:58 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 14, 2009 Threads: 313 Posts: 6784 |
Thanks. I think I'll leave it on my mathproblems.info site for now. I'm thinking of bringing back a personal homepage, where I'll move miscellaneous things like that to. It's not whether you win or lose; it's whether or not you had a good bet. |
| November 19th, 2010 at 3:02:20 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Nov 9, 2009 Threads: 174 Posts: 2415 | There is other stuff I've found on the net that asks questions like your weight and how long your parents lived to. Pretty similar result for me, though. I better get on with the gaming, not much time left! "Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed." Mark Twain |
| November 19th, 2010 at 11:19:28 AM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Nov 17, 2009 Threads: 113 Posts: 2047 | Interesting. I have a .05% chance of living to 105 (1 in 2,000). This is actually better than my chances of drawing four to a royal (1 in 2,765). I wonder which will happen first? |
| November 19th, 2010 at 11:27:31 AM permalink | |
| thecesspit Member since: Apr 19, 2010 Threads: 38 Posts: 3108 |
4 to a royal... you'll have more attempts at it than living to 105... "Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept through nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire, for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829 |
| November 19th, 2010 at 11:31:19 AM permalink | |
| mkl654321 Member since: Aug 8, 2010 Threads: 65 Posts: 3412 |
Will future versions of this calculator be able to consider additional criteria, such as risk factors? The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.---George Bernard Shaw |
| November 19th, 2010 at 11:33:20 AM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Nov 17, 2009 Threads: 113 Posts: 2047 |
hehe, good one. |
| November 19th, 2010 at 12:31:15 PM permalink | |
| DJTeddyBear Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 105 Posts: 5727 | Um, I really wouldn't pay attention to an actuarial calculator that doesn't take ANYTHING other than sex into account. I mean, doesn't being a non-smoker count any more? What about being a non-drinker? Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown.
But how much does it cost to knock on wood? |
| November 19th, 2010 at 4:55:19 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 14, 2009 Threads: 313 Posts: 6784 | That SSA actuarial table is all I could find. If someone can show me a better one, please do. For now, you can make your own adjustments for your own situation. It's not whether you win or lose; it's whether or not you had a good bet. |
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