annuities

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Halley computed age-scaled annuity prices in his 1693 paper, yet the British government kept selling annuities at a single flat price for decades

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · actuarial-history, mortality-tables, edmond-halley, annuities, history-of-mathematics
Does Halley's 1693 Breslau paper itself confirm the first population-based life table and the age-scaled annuity prices the vault attributes to it?

question answered 2026-07-12 · actuarial-history, edmond-halley, mortality-tables, annuities, verification