[Numpy-discussion] Simple financial functions for NumPy

[Travis E. Oliphant]

Sebastian Haase wrote:
> Hi Travis,
> This sounds of course very interesting, but could you elaborate on the
> reasoning why this should not rather be "only" in SciPy !?
> I thought many people think that numpy was already too crowded and
> should concentrate mostly on being a basic array handling facility.
>
>   
I just thought of one more thing that is probably swaying that 
mysterious "gut feel" :

NumPy is on the laptop in the OLPC project.   I want to give those kids 
access to simple financial calculations for learning about 
time-preference for money and the value of saving.

-Travis O.