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Formatting of actuarial notation

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  1. Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2017 September 11#Formatting of actuarial notation
  2. User:Stelio/Actuarial/Notation
  3. phab:T175673
  4. Meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Editing/Extend formula handling to cope with actuarial notation
Attempt to display the following table
2A1
m|x:n
as an in-line element. A table as an in-line element is possible, but only if you modify the surrounding paragraph to be inline as well.
The same but with the central character outside of a table
2
m|
A
1
x:n
looks nearly the same, although the central character is more consistent with surrounding text.

Usage

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Possible user formatting: "^2_m| Abar ^1_x:n¬"?

Replacement glyphs:

Code Display
adue ä
Adue Ä
@bar @

...where "@" represents any character.

Extension

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Use cases:

  • Annuity (a)
  • Accumulation (s)
  • Assurance (A, (IA))
  • Premium (P)
  • Commutation functions (D, N, S, C, M, R) to allow for m-thly frequencies

Not required for: i, d, v, l, q, p, μ

Need to allow for multiple contingent events:

  • x for whole of life
  • x:n¬ for endowment
  • x'1:n¬ for term
  • x:n¬'1 for pure endowment
  • x:y:n¬ for joint-life endowment

Formatting issues

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Problems with clashing lines: äx + än = äx:n + äx:n

An n-year-guaranteed annual annuity due:
ä 
x:n

Article clean-up list

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Actuarial software

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References

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People snippets

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Exclude living actuaries from this list.

  • Roman jurist Ulpian (c. 170–223) created the earliest known life table, used for maintenance annuities on slaves' lives
  • pioneering demographer John Graunt (1620–1674), who demonstrated longevity patterns, was a haberdasher by trade
  • Dutch politician Johan de Witt (1625–1672) expressed life annuities as the weighted average of annuities certain
  • economist Nicholas Barbon (1640–1698) founded the first UK fire insurance office, and had a truly remarkable middle name
  • astronomer Edmond Halley (1656–1742), famed for studying Halley's Comet, constructed one of the first life tables
  • James Dodson (c. 1705–1757) set the foundations for Equitable Life because at age 47 he was refused life assurance for being too old
  • Richard Price (1723–1791) wrote the basis for financial calculations of insurance and benefit societies
  • in 1786 philosopher Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736–1807) published the first work to discuss risk measures
  • William Morgan (1750–1833), who laid the foundations of the actuarial profession, was the first experimenter with X-rays
  • Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865), known for his law of mortality, was self-taught because Jews were barred from universities
  • John Finlaison (1783–1860) was the first president of the Institute of Actuaries, the oldest actuarial professional body
  • mathematician Elizur Wright (1804–1885) campaigned and devised formulae for life insurers to pay and reserve for surrender values
  • Thomas Bond Sprague (1830–1920) was the only (pre-merger) President of both the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries
  • Esprit Jouffret (1837–1904) wrote a treatise on four-dimensional geometry which influenced Pablo Picasso's art
  • Thorvald N. Thiele (1838–1910) was also the director of the Copenhagen Observatory, and two asteroids are named after him
  • in 1917 Alfred Watson (1870–1936) was appointed as Britain's first Government Actuary following the National Insurance Act 1911
  • Johan Frederik Steffensen (1873–1961) developed a root-finding technique with quadratic convergence without using derivatives
  • Maurice Princet (1875–1973) introduced the concept of the fourth dimension to artists, leading to the birth of cubism
  • Sverre Krogh (1883–1957) was an informer for the German security police during the Nazi occupation of Norway in World War II
  • in 1929 Harald Cramér (1893–1985) was appointed the first Swedish professor of Actuarial Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
  • Andreas Tømmerbakke (1910–1994) was an important member of Milorg, the Norwegian resistance group during World War II
  • in 1978 Max Lacroix (1913–2009) founded the Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen, which advises the EU on actuarial issues
  • in 1995 an actuary helped the Penguin plan crimes by exploiting scenario probabilities, but was ultimately foiled by Batman

Others? Henrik Palmstrøm · Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark

To do: Filip Lundberg · Anders Lindstedt · Category:American actuaries · Category:British actuaries · Category:Canadian actuaries