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Letter: Prices that turn quicker than an avocado

Published 3 January 2018

From John Widdowson, Melbourne, Australia

I was saddened to read that David E. H. Jones, better known on these pages as Daedalus, had passed away (Old Scientist, 2 September 2017). In the past, Daedalus was always my first port of call when reading Âé¶¹´«Ã½.

One story stuck with me. He described a supermarket where the price of articles changed as they were sold. If something was selling quickly the price went up, and went down if it wasn't moving. I seem to remember reading this when computerised supermarkets weren't common. A good bit of prediction.

Issue no. 3159 published 6 January 2018

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