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Flashcard 149630928

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#odersky-programming-in-scala-2ed #scala
Question
How to apply array of strings to echo? 
val arr = Array("What's", "up", "doc?")

def echo(args: String*) =
  for (arg <- args) println(arg)
Answer
add colon and _* symbol to the argument:

echo(arr: _*)

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Flashcard 149630943

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#odersky-programming-in-scala-2ed #scala
Question
How to call this function with named parameters instead of speed(100, 10)? 
def speed(distance: Float, time: Float): Float =
  distance / time
Answer
Use equal sign: speed(distance = 100, time = 10)

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Annotation 149650280

#economics #money
The lender is left with the IOU which (together with interest thereon) must be worth as much as the gold coins OR ELSE HE WOULD NOT HAVE LENT OUT THE GOLD COINS IN THE FIRST PLACE
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Mark Wadsworth: Glad to have cleared that up.
anks of the power to create money" (FT 24.April) 14 November 2014 19:30 Mark Wadsworth said... "If the money lender hands over the gold coins as a loan, he will be left with a paper i.o.u and no real assets at all."<span>The lender is left with the IOU which (together with interest thereon) must be worth as much as the gold coins OR ELSE HE WOULD NOT HAVE LENT OUT THE GOLD COINS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!! "What is he supposed to live on? Is he going to loan out the paper i.o.u as that's all he's got left?"FFS, grow up. What do you think bankers live off????? 15 Novem



Annotation 149650298

splitting the zero - asset and liability
#economics #money
  1. Robert took a loan at RBS, so he signed a contract to repay RBS £10,000, which is legally enforcible, so RBS has an asset (Robert's promise).
  2. ​Robert, having committed to pay RBS £10,000 back, wants to receive his ‘loan’. So RBS opens up [a deposit] account for him, and types in £10,000. So, now RBS has a liability now as well (on Robert's demand, the money can be withdrawn from his deposit account).
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Mark Wadsworth: Positive Money
00 over a period of five years, plus interest. This legally enforceable contract represents a future income stream for the bank, and when the bank comes to draw up its balance sheet it will be included as an additional asset worth £10,000. <span>Robert, having committed to pay the bank £10,000, wants to receive his ‘loan’. So RBS opens up [a deposit] account for him, and types in £10,000. This is recorded as a liability on RBS’s balance. Notice that no money was transferred or taken from any other account, the bank simply updated a computer database. A bank does not ‘lend money’ – to lend one must have money to lend in t